Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

2.

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

Proverb, Spanish

3.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

4.

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

Aeschylus

5.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

6.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

7.

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

8.

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

Baldwin, James

9.

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

Bible

10.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

14.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

15.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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.

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

Henrik Ibsen

18.

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

Bannister, Roger

19.

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

Byrnes, James F.

20.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

21.

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

Friedman, Milton

22.

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

Camus, Albert

23.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

25.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

27.

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

28.

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

Lindner, Robert

29.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.

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

Elie Wiesel

31.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

32.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

33.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

35.

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

36.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

37.

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

Barthes, Roland

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.

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

Lao-Tzu

40.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

42.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

43.

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

Capone, Al

44.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

45.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.