Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

2.

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

Aeschylus

3.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

4.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

5.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

6.

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

7.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

9.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

10.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

11.

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

12.

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

Baltasar Gracian

13.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

14.

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

Cotvos

15.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

16.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

17.

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

Russell, Bertrand

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

19.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

22.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

23.

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

Carnegie, Dale

24.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

25.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

Alinsky, Saul

29.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

30.

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

Wieder, Marcia

31.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

32.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

33.

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

Byrnes, James F.

34.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

35.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

36.

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

37.

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

White, Theodore

38.

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.

39.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

40.

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

Kinkel

41.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

42.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

43.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

45.

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

46.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

47.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

48.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

49.

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

50.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.