Motivational Quotes

Power

Personal power is the ability to take action.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

2.

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

Hazlitt, William

3.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

4.

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

Shakespeare, William

5.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

7.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

8.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

9.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Wieder, Marcia

11.

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

Henrik Ibsen

12.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

13.

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

14.

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

15.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

16.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

18.

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

19.

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

20.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

21.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

22.

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

Proverb, Arabian

23.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

24.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

25.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

26.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

27.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

28.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

29.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

30.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

31.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

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

Billings, Josh

33.

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

34.

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

Mencken, H. L.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

38.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

40.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

41.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

42.

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

43.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

44.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

45.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

46.

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

Aeschylus

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Fuller, Thomas

50.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav