Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Fromm, Erich

2.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

3.

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

4.

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

Malcolm X

5.

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

6.

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

7.

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

8.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

9.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

10.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

11.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

13.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

14.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

15.

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

16.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

17.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

18.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Harry Shearer

20.

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

21.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

23.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

24.

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

Banks, Harry F.

25.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

30.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

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

Weil, Simone

32.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Hooker, Richard

35.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

37.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

38.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

39.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

40.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

41.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

42.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

43.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.

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

Rostand, Jean

45.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

46.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

47.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

48.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

49.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

50.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.