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.

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

Alinsky, Saul

2.

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

3.

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

Joseph Farrell

4.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

5.

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

6.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

8.

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

Aeschylus

9.

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

10.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

12.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

13.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

14.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

15.

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

Henrik Ibsen

16.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

17.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

18.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

19.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

20.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

21.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

22.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

25.

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

Friedman, Milton

26.

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

Malcolm X

27.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

29.

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

Wieder, Marcia

30.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

31.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

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

Byrnes, James F.

33.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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.

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

Steinem, Gloria

36.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

37.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

38.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

39.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

40.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

41.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

42.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

44.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

45.

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

Hill, Napoleon

46.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

47.

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

48.

Power tires only those who do not have it.