Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

- Foucault, Michel

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

2.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

3.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

Bible

5.

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

Wieder, Marcia

6.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

7.

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

8.

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.

9.

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

10.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

11.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

12.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

13.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

14.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

15.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

16.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

17.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

18.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

19.

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

Hazlitt, William

20.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

21.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

22.

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

Bible

23.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

Bannister, Roger

26.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

27.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

28.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

31.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

32.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

33.

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

Bacon, Francis

34.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

35.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

36.

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

Amy Tan

37.

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

38.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

39.

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

Steinem, Gloria

40.

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

Byrnes, James F.

41.

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