Motivational Quotes

Power

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

- Mizner, Addison

Best Quotes about Power

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

14.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

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

Proverb

16.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

17.

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.

18.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

20.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

21.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

22.

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

Cotvos

23.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

24.

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

25.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

26.

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.

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

29.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

30.

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

31.

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

32.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

Proverb, Spanish

34.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

35.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

37.

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

Malcolm X

38.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

42.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

43.

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

44.

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

45.

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

Swift, Jonathan

46.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

47.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

48.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.