Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Mann, Horace

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

10.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

12.

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

13.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

14.

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

Tilly

15.

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

Billings, Josh

16.

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

Lao-Tzu

17.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Hendrix, Jimi

19.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Lao-Tzu

22.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

24.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

25.

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

Aeschylus

26.

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

Apocrypha

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

29.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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

Lord Macaulay

33.

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

Joseph Farrell

34.

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

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Malcolm X

37.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

40.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

41.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

42.

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

43.

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

44.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

45.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

46.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

Hazlitt, William

48.

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.