Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Macarthur, Douglas

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

2.

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

Adams, John

3.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

4.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

5.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

6.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

7.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

8.

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

Apocrypha

9.

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

Weil, Simone

10.

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

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

13.

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

Russell, Bertrand

14.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

15.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

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

Elie Wiesel

17.

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

18.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

19.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

20.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

21.

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

Camus, Albert

22.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

23.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

24.

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

Lindner, Robert

25.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

26.

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

Hooker, Richard

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.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

29.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

30.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

31.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

32.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

33.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

34.

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

35.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

36.

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

Wordsworth, William

37.

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

38.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

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

Bannister, Roger

41.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

44.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

46.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

47.

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

Alinsky, Saul

48.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!