Motivational Quotes

Power

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

2.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

3.

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

Kinkel

4.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

5.

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

Einstein, Albert

6.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

7.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

8.

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

9.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

13.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

17.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

18.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

19.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

20.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

21.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

23.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

24.

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

Steinem, Gloria

25.

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

26.

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

Baldwin, James

27.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

Harry Shearer

30.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

32.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

Aeschylus

34.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

35.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

37.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

38.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

39.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

40.

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

Herrich

41.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

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

Smith, Sydney

43.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

44.

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

Eliot, T. S.

45.

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

Lao-Tzu

46.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

47.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

48.

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

Wordsworth, William

49.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

50.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.