Motivational Quotes

Power

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

- Cotvos

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

2.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

3.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

4.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

5.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

6.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

7.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

8.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

9.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

11.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

13.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

14.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

15.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

16.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

17.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

18.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

20.

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

21.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

22.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

23.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

24.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

25.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

26.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

27.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

29.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

30.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

31.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

32.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

33.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

34.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

35.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

37.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

38.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

39.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

40.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

41.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

43.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

44.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

45.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

46.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

47.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

48.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

49.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

50.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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