Motivational Quotes

Power

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Power

1.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

2.

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

Proverb

3.

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

Eliot, T. S.

4.

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

Lindner, Robert

5.

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

6.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

8.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

9.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

10.

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

Aeschylus

11.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

13.

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

Barthes, Roland

14.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

15.

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

16.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

17.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

18.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

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

White, Theodore

20.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

21.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

22.

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

23.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

24.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

25.

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

Russell, Bertrand

26.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

27.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

28.

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

29.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

30.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

31.

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

Cotvos

32.

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

Proverb, Norse

33.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

36.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

37.

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

Rostand, Jean

38.

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

Mencken, H. L.

39.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

40.

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

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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.

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.