Motivational Quotes

Power

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Power

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Russell, Bertrand

10.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

12.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

13.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

14.

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

Baldwin, James

15.

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

Weil, Simone

16.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

18.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

19.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

20.

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

Proverb, Spanish

21.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

22.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

23.

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

24.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

25.

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

Carnegie, Dale

26.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

27.

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

Proverb

28.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

29.

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

Malcolm X

30.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

31.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

32.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

33.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

34.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

35.

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

Baltasar Gracian

36.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

38.

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

Joseph Farrell

39.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

40.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

41.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

42.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

43.

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

Apocrypha

44.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

45.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

49.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

50.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop