Motivational Quotes

Power

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

3.

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

4.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

5.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

6.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

7.

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

Friedman, Milton

8.

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

9.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

10.

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

Hazlitt, William

11.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

14.

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

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Capone, Al

17.

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

18.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

20.

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

21.

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

Lao-Tzu

22.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

23.

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

Baldwin, James

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.

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

Harry Shearer

26.

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

Smith, Sydney

27.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

28.

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

Amy Tan

29.

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

Proverb, Arabian

30.

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

Rand, Ayn

31.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

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

Proverb, Spanish

33.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

34.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

38.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

39.

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

40.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

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

43.

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

Alinsky, Saul

44.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

45.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

46.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.