Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Power

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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.

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

10.

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

Herrich

11.

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

Joseph Farrell

12.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

15.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

16.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

17.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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

19.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

20.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

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

Adams, John

24.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

25.

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

Fuller, Thomas

26.

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

27.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

28.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

29.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

30.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

31.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

32.

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

Proverb, Spanish

33.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

34.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

35.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

36.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

37.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

38.

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

Cecil, Richard

39.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

40.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

41.

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

Proverb, Norse

42.

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

Bible

43.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

44.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

46.

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

Baldwin, James

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

48.

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

Camus, Albert

49.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

50.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo