Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Harry Shearer

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Lindner, Robert

2.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

3.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

4.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

5.

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

6.

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

Malcolm X

7.

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

Amy Tan

8.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

9.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

10.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

11.

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

Wieder, Marcia

12.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

13.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

15.

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

Proverb, Spanish

16.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

17.

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

Proverb, Norse

18.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

19.

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

Capone, Al

20.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

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

Apocrypha

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

25.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

26.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

27.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

29.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

30.

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

31.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

32.

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

33.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

34.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

35.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

36.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

37.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

39.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

40.

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

Smith, Sydney

41.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

42.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

44.

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

45.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

46.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

47.

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.

48.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

49.

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

50.

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

Lord Macaulay