Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

2.

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.

3.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

4.

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

Bannister, Roger

5.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

6.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

7.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

8.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

9.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

13.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Baltasar Gracian

16.

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

Steinem, Gloria

17.

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

Wieder, Marcia

18.

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

Byrnes, James F.

19.

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

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

Harry Shearer

22.

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

Rand, Ayn

23.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

24.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

25.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Macmillan, Harold

28.

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

29.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

30.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

31.

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

32.

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

Swift, Jonathan

33.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

34.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

35.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

36.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

37.

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

Kinkel

38.

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

39.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

40.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

41.

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

42.

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

43.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

44.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

45.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

46.

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

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

Henrik Ibsen

48.

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

Mann, Horace

49.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

50.

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