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.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

2.

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.

3.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

4.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

5.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

6.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

7.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

8.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

10.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

11.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

12.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

13.

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

Barthes, Roland

14.

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

Harry Shearer

15.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

16.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

18.

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

Amy Tan

19.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

20.

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

Henrik Ibsen

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Friedman, Milton

23.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

24.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

25.

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

26.

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

Friedman, Milton

27.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

28.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

30.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

31.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

35.

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

36.

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

Swift, Jonathan

37.

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

38.

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

Malcolm X

39.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

40.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

43.

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

Malcolm X

44.

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

45.

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

Fuller, Thomas

46.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

Alinsky, Saul

48.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

49.

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

50.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale