Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hamilton, Alexander

Best Quotes about Power

1.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

2.

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

Swift, Jonathan

3.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

4.

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

5.

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

Proverb, Arabian

6.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

7.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

8.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

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

11.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

Archimedes

13.

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

Malcolm X

14.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

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

Russell, Bertrand

16.

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

17.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

20.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

21.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

22.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

23.

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

24.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

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

26.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

28.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

29.

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

Lord Macaulay

30.

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

Mann, Horace

31.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

32.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

33.

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

34.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

35.

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

36.

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

Byrnes, James F.

37.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

38.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

39.

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

Aeschylus

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

43.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

44.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

45.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

46.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

47.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

48.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

49.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

50.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von