Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

2.

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

Mann, Horace

3.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

4.

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

Bacon, Francis

5.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

6.

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

Weil, Simone

7.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

8.

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

9.

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Kinkel

12.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

13.

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

14.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

15.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

16.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

17.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

20.

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

Lao-Tzu

21.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

22.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

23.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

24.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

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

26.

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

27.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

28.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

29.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

30.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

31.

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

Proverb, Arabian

32.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

33.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

34.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

35.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

36.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

37.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

38.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

40.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

41.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

42.

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

Bannister, Roger

43.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

44.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

45.

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

46.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

47.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

49.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

50.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert