Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Macarthur, Douglas

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Camus, Albert

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Fuller, Thomas

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

10.

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

Herrich

11.

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

Lindner, Robert

12.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

13.

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

14.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Baltasar Gracian

16.

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

Russell, Bertrand

17.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

18.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

19.

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

20.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

21.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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.

23.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

24.

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

Malcolm X

25.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

26.

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

27.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

29.

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

Cecil, Richard

30.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

31.

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

32.

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

Seneca

33.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

34.

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

35.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

36.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

37.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

39.

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

40.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

41.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

42.

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

Archimedes

43.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

44.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

45.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

46.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

47.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

49.

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

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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