Motivational Quotes

Power

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

- Mizner, Addison

Best Quotes about Power

1.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

2.

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

3.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

4.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

5.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

6.

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

Baltasar Gracian

7.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

8.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

9.

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

10.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

11.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

12.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

14.

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

Harry Shearer

15.

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.

16.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Hill, Napoleon

21.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Proverb, Arabian

23.

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

Seneca

24.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

25.

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

Baldwin, James

26.

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

Fromm, Erich

27.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

28.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

29.

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.

30.

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

Steinem, Gloria

31.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

32.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

33.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

34.

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

Hooker, Richard

35.

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

Swift, Jonathan

36.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

37.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

38.

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

Malcolm X

39.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

40.

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

Wordsworth, William

41.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

42.

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

Boseley, Sarah

43.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.