Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

2.

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

3.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

4.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

5.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

6.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

7.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

8.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

9.

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

Macmillan, Harold

10.

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

11.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

12.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

13.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

14.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

15.

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

16.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

18.

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

Capone, Al

19.

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

Byrnes, James F.

20.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

21.

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

Hazlitt, William

22.

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

Aeschylus

23.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

25.

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

Steinem, Gloria

26.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

30.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

31.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

32.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

33.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

35.

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

Russell, Bertrand

36.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

37.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

38.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

39.

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

40.

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

Aeschylus

41.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

42.

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

43.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

44.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

45.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

50.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus