Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hooker, Richard

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

2.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

3.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

4.

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.

5.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

6.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

7.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

8.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

9.

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.

10.

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

Elie Wiesel

11.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

12.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Mencken, H. L.

14.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

15.

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

Barthes, Roland

16.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

17.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

20.

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

Steinem, Gloria

21.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

22.

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.

23.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

24.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

25.

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

Friedman, Milton

26.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

27.

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

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Bacon, Francis

30.

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

Bible

31.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

32.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

33.

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

Aeschylus

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

36.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

37.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

38.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

39.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

40.

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

Joseph Farrell

41.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

42.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

43.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

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

Cecil, Richard

45.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

47.

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

Malcolm X

48.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

49.

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

50.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon