Motivational Quotes

Power

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Eliot, T. S.

2.

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

3.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

4.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

5.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

9.

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

10.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

11.

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

Steinem, Gloria

12.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

13.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Baltasar Gracian

18.

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

Kinkel

19.

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

Bannister, Roger

20.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

21.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

22.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

23.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

25.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

26.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

27.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

Proverb, Spanish

29.

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

Fromm, Erich

30.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

31.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

32.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

33.

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

Bible

34.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

35.

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

Henrik Ibsen

36.

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

Baldwin, James

37.

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

Wordsworth, William

38.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

39.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

40.

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

41.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

43.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

44.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

45.

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

Aeschylus

46.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

47.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

48.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

49.

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

50.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus