Motivational Quotes

Power

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

- Gaddis, William

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

2.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

3.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

4.

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

5.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

6.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

7.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

8.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

9.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

10.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

11.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Smith, Sydney

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

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

Lord Macaulay

17.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

19.

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

Hazlitt, William

20.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

21.

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

22.

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

Archimedes

23.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

26.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

27.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

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

29.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

30.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

31.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

32.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

33.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

34.

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

Friedman, Milton

35.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

36.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

37.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

38.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

39.

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

Joseph Farrell

40.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

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

Bacon, Francis

42.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

44.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

45.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

46.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Baltasar Gracian