Mobsea Logo
Home

Motivational Quotes

Power

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
- Hendrix, Jimi
Power Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Power

1.
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Lord Macaulay

2.
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Mann, Horace

3.
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
Byrnes, James F.

4.
In oratory the will must predominate.
Hare, David

5.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
Macarthur, Douglas

6.
I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
Thatcher, Margaret

7.
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Peter, Laurence J.

8.
Will it, and set to work briskly.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.
Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
Charles Caleb Colton

11.
All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.
Dworkin, Andrea

12.
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
Amiel, Henri Frederic

13.
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
Steinem, Gloria

14.
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

15.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.
All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.
Cotvos

17.
The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.
Joseph Farrell

18.
Man has will, but woman has her way.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.
He has the power who the majority believe in.
Raupach

20.
To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
Rand, Ayn

21.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

22.
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

23.
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

24.
What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
Lindner, Robert

25.
Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.
Tilly

26.
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Baltasar Gracian

27.
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

28.
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
Haliburton, Thomas C.

29.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

30.
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

31.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Bevan, Aneurin

32.
Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
Marden, Orison Swett

33.
I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..
Rilke, Rainer Maria

34.
Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.
When the will is ready the feet are light.
Proverb

36.
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Bruyere, Jean De La

37.
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

38.
Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
Morgenthau, Hans J.

39.
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
Barthes, Roland

40.
With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Wordsworth, William

41.
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

42.
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
Stevenson, Adlai E.

43.
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
Seneca

44.
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

45.
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

46.
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Niebuhr, Reinhold

47.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Dr. Thomas Fuller

48.
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Rostand, Jean

49.
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Elie Wiesel

50.
No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Colton, Charles Caleb


Daily Inspirational Quotes on

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by Motivational Quotes.
Quotes on Ability
Achievement
Acting and actors
Action
Adversity
Quotes on Advertising
Advice
Age
Age and aging
Alcohol and alcoholism
Quotes on Ambition
America
Anger
Animals
Appearance
Quotes on Argument
Art
Atheism
Attitude
Beauty
Quotes on Belief
Body
Books
Books - reading
Bores and boredom
Quotes on Business
Change
Character
Charity
Children
Quotes on Choice
Christians and christianity
Churches
Civilization
Colleges and universities
Quotes on Commitment
Common sense
Communication
Communism and socialism
Competition
Quotes on Complaints and complaining
Computers
Concentration
Confidence
Conflict
Quotes on Contentment
Control
Conversation
Cooperation
Courage
Quotes on Creativity
Crime and criminals
Criticism
Culture
Death
Quotes on Education
Effort
Enemies
Enthusiasm
Equality
Quotes on Evil
Evolution
Example
Excellence
Expectation
Quotes on Experience
Facts
Failure
Faith
Fame
Quotes on Family
Fashion
Fate
Fear
Feminism
Quotes on Fiction
Focus
Food
Food and eating
Fools and foolishness
Quotes on Forgiveness
Freedom
Friends and friendship
Friendship
Genius
Quotes on Giving
Goals
God
Goodness
Gossip
Quotes on Government
Gratitude
Greatness
Grief
Growth
Quotes on Habit
Happiness
Hatred
Health
Heaven
Quotes on Heroes and heroism
History and historians
Hollywood
Home
Honesty
Quotes on Honor
Hope
Humankind
Humility
Humor
Quotes on Ideas
Ignorance
Imagination
Individuality
Integrity
Quotes on Intelligence and intellectuals
Jesus christ
Journalism and journalists
Joy
Judgment and judges
Quotes on Justice
Kindness
Knowledge
Language
Laughter
Quotes on Law and lawyers
Laziness
Leadership
Learning
Liberty
Quotes on Lies and lying
Life
Listening
Literature
Loneliness
Quotes on Losers and losing
Love
Luck
Management
Manners
Quotes on Marriage
Media
Medicine
Memory
Men
Quotes on Mind
Mistakes
Money
Morality
Mothers
Quotes on Motivation
Music
Nations
Nature
Obstacles
Quotes on Opinions
Opportunity
Optimism
Pain
Parents and parenting
Quotes on Passion
Past
Patience
Patriotism
Peace
Quotes on People
Perfection
Perseverance
Persuasion
Philosophers and philosophy
Quotes on Photography
Planning
Pleasure
Poetry and poets
Politics
Quotes on Possibilities
Potential
Poverty and the poor
Power
Praise
Quotes on Prayer
Prejudice
Present
Pride
Problems
Quotes on Procrastination
Progress
Proverbs
Purpose
Quotations
Quotes on Reality
Reason
Relationship
Religion
Reputation
Quotes on Respectability
Responsibility
Riches
Risk
Science
Quotes on Secrets
Security
Self-esteem
Service
Silence
Quotes on Simplicity
Sin
Sleep
Society
Solitude
Quotes on Speakers and speaking
Speech
Spirituality
Success
Suffering
Quotes on Talent
Taxes and taxation
Teacher
The future
Theater
Quotes on Things and little things
Thoughts and thinking
Time
Travel
Trust
Quotes on Truth
Twentieth century
Understanding
Victory
Virtue
Quotes on Vision
War
Wealth
Winners and winning
Wisdom
Quotes on Wives
Women
Words
Work
World
Quotes on Worry
Writers and writing
Writing
Youth

Test your English Language
Cute Nail Art Designs
Road Safety
Benefits of Green chillis
Man Accessories All Time
Benefits of Star Apple
Benefits of Coriander
Ways to Overcome Anger
Rules to play Roller Skating
Biggest Male Models of All Time
Surprising ways youre ruining your Hair
Rules to play Bocce Ball
Rules to play 8 Ball Pool
Jumping Jacks
Weird English Movie Names
Wonderful cars in the world
Mythic Creatures That Never Existed But People Believed In Anyway
Mythological Creatures and Shapeshifters
Nails Art Designs