Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Herrich

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

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

Bible

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

Malcolm X

10.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

11.

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

Joseph Farrell

12.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.

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

17.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

18.

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

Aeschylus

19.

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

Barthes, Roland

20.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

21.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

22.

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

Smith, Sydney

23.

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

24.

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

Elie Wiesel

25.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

26.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

27.

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

Apocrypha

28.

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

Bannister, Roger

29.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

30.

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.

31.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

32.

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

Wieder, Marcia

33.

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

Lao-Tzu

34.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

35.

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

Friedman, Milton

36.

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

Mann, Horace

37.

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

Banks, Harry F.

38.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

39.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

40.

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

Rostand, Jean

41.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

45.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

46.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

48.

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

49.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

50.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony