Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Cotvos

Best Quotes about Power

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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

Aeschylus

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Swift, Jonathan

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

12.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

13.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

14.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

15.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

16.

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

Russell, Bertrand

17.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

18.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

19.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

20.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

21.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

22.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

23.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

24.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

25.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

26.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

27.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

28.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

29.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

31.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

32.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

33.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

34.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

35.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

36.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

38.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

39.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

40.

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

41.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

42.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

43.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

44.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

45.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

46.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

47.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.