Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hamilton, Alexander

Best Quotes about Power

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

Einstein, Albert

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Tilly

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

Archimedes

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

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

Malcolm X

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

10.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

12.

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

13.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

14.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

17.

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

Apocrypha

18.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

19.

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

Wordsworth, William

20.

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

21.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

22.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

23.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

Baltasar Gracian

25.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

26.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

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

Byrnes, James F.

28.

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

Proverb, Arabian

29.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

30.

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

31.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

33.

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

Amy Tan

34.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

37.

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

Bible

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

Wieder, Marcia

41.

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

Swift, Jonathan

42.

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

Malcolm X

43.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

44.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

47.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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