Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Power

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Einstein, Albert

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

10.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

11.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

12.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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

14.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

15.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

16.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

17.

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

Aeschylus

18.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

20.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

21.

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

22.

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

John Stuart Mill

23.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

24.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

26.

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

27.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

28.

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

Baltasar Gracian

29.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

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

Steinem, Gloria

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

34.

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

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

38.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

39.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

40.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

42.

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

Aeschylus

43.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

44.

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

Camus, Albert

45.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

46.

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

47.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

48.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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