Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Power

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Byrnes, James F.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Boseley, Sarah

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

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

11.

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

Bacon, Francis

12.

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

13.

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

Malcolm X

14.

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

Proverb, Arabian

15.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

16.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

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

18.

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

Joseph Farrell

19.

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

20.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

21.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

22.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

23.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

24.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

28.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

29.

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.

30.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

31.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

32.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

Bannister, Roger

35.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

36.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

37.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

38.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

39.

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

Bible

40.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

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

Lord Macaulay

42.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

43.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

44.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

45.

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

46.

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

Lao-Tzu

47.

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

Lao-Tzu

48.

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

Billings, Josh

49.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.