Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

2.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

3.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

4.

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

Rostand, Jean

5.

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

Henrik Ibsen

6.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

7.

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

Boseley, Sarah

8.

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

John Stuart Mill

9.

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

Byrnes, James F.

10.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

11.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

13.

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

14.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

15.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

Billings, Josh

18.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

19.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

20.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

21.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

22.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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.

24.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

25.

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

26.

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

29.

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

Camus, Albert

30.

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

31.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

32.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

33.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

34.

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

35.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

36.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

38.

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

39.

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

Wieder, Marcia

40.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

41.

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

Proverb, Arabian

42.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.