Motivational Quotes

Power

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

3.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

4.

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

Lao-Tzu

5.

Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

6.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

8.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

9.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

10.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Bible

14.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

15.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

16.

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

17.

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

18.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

19.

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

20.

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

Friedman, Milton

21.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

26.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

27.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

28.

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

Hazlitt, William

29.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

31.

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

Billings, Josh

32.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

33.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

34.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

35.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

36.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

37.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

38.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

40.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

41.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

42.

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

Swift, Jonathan

43.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

44.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

45.

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

46.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

47.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.