Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Power

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

Proverb, Spanish

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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

Aeschylus

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

10.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

11.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

12.

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

Joseph Farrell

13.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

14.

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

Barthes, Roland

15.

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

Camus, Albert

16.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

17.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

18.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

19.

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

Capone, Al

20.

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

Tilly

21.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

22.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

23.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

24.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

25.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

26.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

27.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

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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

30.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Henrik Ibsen

32.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

33.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

35.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

36.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

37.

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

38.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

39.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

40.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

41.

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

42.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

43.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

45.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

46.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.