Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hooker, Richard

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Russell, Bertrand

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Malcolm X

10.

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

Carnegie, Dale

11.

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

Bacon, Francis

12.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

13.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

14.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

15.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

16.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

20.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

21.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

22.

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

23.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

24.

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

25.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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

Tilly

27.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

28.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

29.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

30.

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

31.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

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

Lao-Tzu

33.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

36.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

37.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

38.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

39.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Aeschylus

41.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

42.

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

Alinsky, Saul

43.

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

Hooker, Richard

44.

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

Elie Wiesel

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

47.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

48.

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

Camus, Albert

49.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

50.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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