Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Joseph Farrell

Best Quotes about Power

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Camus, Albert

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

10.

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

Bible

11.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

13.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

14.

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

Proverb, Spanish

15.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

16.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

17.

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

Proverb, Norse

18.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

19.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

20.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

21.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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.

24.

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

John Stuart Mill

25.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

26.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

27.

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

28.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

30.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

31.

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

32.

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

Baltasar Gracian

33.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

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

35.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

37.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

38.

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

Mencken, H. L.

39.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

40.

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

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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

42.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

43.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

44.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

45.

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

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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

47.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

48.

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

49.

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

Joseph Farrell

50.

He has the power who the majority believe in.