Motivational Quotes

Power

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

- Havel, Vaclav

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

3.

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

Hazlitt, William

4.

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

Joseph Farrell

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.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

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

Lao-Tzu

8.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

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

Friedman, Milton

10.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

11.

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

Russell, Bertrand

12.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

13.

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

Malcolm X

14.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

15.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Bannister, Roger

18.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

19.

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

20.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

21.

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

Byrnes, James F.

22.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

23.

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.

24.

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

Boseley, Sarah

25.

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

26.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

27.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

29.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

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

31.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

32.

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

White, Theodore

33.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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

Baltasar Gracian

35.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

36.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

38.

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

Proverb

39.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

40.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

41.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

42.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

46.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

Calmness is the cradle of power.