Motivational Quotes

Power

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

- Cousins, Norman

Best Quotes about Power

1.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

2.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

3.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

4.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

5.

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

6.

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

Bacon, Francis

7.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

8.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

9.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

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

11.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

12.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

14.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

15.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Billings, Josh

19.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

20.

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

21.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

23.

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

Lao-Tzu

24.

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

Steinem, Gloria

25.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

26.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

27.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

28.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

29.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

30.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

31.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

32.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

34.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

35.

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

Hazlitt, William

36.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

38.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

39.

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

40.

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

Bible

41.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

42.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

43.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

44.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

45.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

46.

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

47.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

48.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

49.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

50.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von