Motivational Quotes

Power

The look of a king is itself a deed.

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Power

1.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

3.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

4.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

5.

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

Boseley, Sarah

6.

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

7.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

8.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

10.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

12.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

13.

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

Einstein, Albert

14.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

17.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

18.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Elie Wiesel

20.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

21.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

22.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

23.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

24.

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

25.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

26.

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

27.

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

Baltasar Gracian

28.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

29.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

30.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

32.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

33.

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

Bible

34.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

35.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

36.

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

Hazlitt, William

37.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, Arabian

41.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

42.

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