Motivational Quotes

Power

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.

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

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

Boseley, Sarah

4.

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

Amy Tan

5.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

6.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

8.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

9.

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

10.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

11.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

13.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

14.

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

Swift, Jonathan

15.

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

Harry Shearer

16.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

17.

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

Barthes, Roland

18.

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

19.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

20.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

21.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

22.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

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

24.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

25.

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

Joseph Farrell

26.

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

Capone, Al

27.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

29.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

30.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

32.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

33.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

34.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

35.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

36.

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

Malcolm X

37.

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