Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Niebuhr, Reinhold

Best Quotes about Power

1.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

2.

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

Steinem, Gloria

3.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

4.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

5.

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

Hazlitt, William

6.

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

Steinem, Gloria

7.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

8.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

9.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

10.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

11.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

18.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

19.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

20.

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

21.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Lindner, Robert

23.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

28.

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

Fromm, Erich

29.

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

30.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

33.

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

Apocrypha

34.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

35.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

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

37.

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

Swift, Jonathan

38.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

39.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

40.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.