Motivational Quotes

Power

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

- Jordan, William George

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Alinsky, Saul

2.

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

3.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

4.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

5.

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

Swift, Jonathan

6.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

7.

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

Proverb, Norse

8.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

9.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

10.

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

Bacon, Francis

11.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

12.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

13.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

15.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

16.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

17.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

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

Proverb, Spanish

20.

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

21.

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

22.

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

23.

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

Byrnes, James F.

24.

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

Baldwin, James

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

27.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

28.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

29.

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

Hooker, Richard

30.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

31.

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

32.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

33.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

34.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

35.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

36.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

38.

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

Barthes, Roland

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Lao-Tzu

42.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

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

Russell, Bertrand

44.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.