Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Power

1.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

2.

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

Joseph Farrell

3.

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

4.

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

Lindner, Robert

5.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

6.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

7.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

8.

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

9.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

11.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

12.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

13.

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

Hooker, Richard

14.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

15.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

16.

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

17.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

20.

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

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Banks, Harry F.

25.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

26.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

28.

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

Amy Tan

29.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

30.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

31.

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

Alinsky, Saul

32.

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

Macmillan, Harold

33.

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

Kinkel

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Malcolm X

36.

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

37.

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

39.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

40.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

43.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

44.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

45.

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