Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Power

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

Mencken, H. L.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Aeschylus

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Wieder, Marcia

10.

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

Wordsworth, William

11.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

Russell, Bertrand

13.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

14.

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.

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

17.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

22.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

24.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

25.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

27.

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

Herrich

28.

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

Proverb, Arabian

29.

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

Baltasar Gracian

30.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

31.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

33.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

34.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

35.

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

36.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Byrnes, James F.

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

Fromm, Erich

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

40.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

42.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

45.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

46.

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

Smith, Sydney

47.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

48.

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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

Lao-Tzu

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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