Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Morgenthau, Hans J.

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

2.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

3.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

4.

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

Bible

5.

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

6.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

10.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

11.

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

Rostand, Jean

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

White, Theodore

14.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

15.

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.

Hoffer, Eric

16.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

17.

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

Russell, Bertrand

18.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

19.

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

Aeschylus

20.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

21.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

22.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

23.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

24.

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

Steinem, Gloria

25.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

26.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

27.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

28.

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

Bible

29.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

30.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

31.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

32.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

33.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

34.

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

Lao-Tzu

35.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

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

37.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

38.

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

39.

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

Mencken, H. L.

40.

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

41.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

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

Baltasar Gracian

43.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

44.

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

45.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

46.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

47.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

48.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

49.

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

50.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William