Motivational Quotes

Power

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Power

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Wordsworth, William

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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

Tilly

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.

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

10.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

11.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

12.

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

Bible

13.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

14.

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

Elie Wiesel

15.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

16.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

17.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

18.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

19.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

20.

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

Baltasar Gracian

21.

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

Aeschylus

22.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

23.

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

24.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

25.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

26.

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

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

29.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

30.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

31.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

32.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

33.

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

Hooker, Richard

34.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

35.

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

Eliot, T. S.

36.

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

Seneca

37.

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

38.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Smith, Sydney

40.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

41.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.