Motivational Quotes

Power

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

10.

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

Lao-Tzu

11.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

12.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

13.

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

Cecil, Richard

14.

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

15.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

16.

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

Smith, Sydney

17.

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

Swift, Jonathan

18.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

19.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

20.

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

21.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Weil, Simone

23.

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

Bacon, Francis

24.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

25.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

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

Lao-Tzu

27.

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

28.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

30.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

31.

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

32.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

33.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

35.

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

Hazlitt, William

36.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

38.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

39.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

41.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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.

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

Friedman, Milton

44.

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

Proverb, Spanish

45.

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

Joseph Farrell

46.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

47.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

48.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

49.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

Daily Inspirational Quotes on

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by Motivational Quotes.

Quotes on Advertising

Advice

Age

Age and aging

Alcohol and alcoholism

Christians and christianity

Churches

Civilization

Colleges and universities

Quotes on Commitment

Common sense

Communication

Communism and socialism

Competition

Quotes on Complaints and complaining

Quotes on Contentment

Fools and foolishness

Quotes on Forgiveness

Freedom

Friends and friendship

Quotes on Heroes and heroism

History and historians

Quotes on Intelligence and intellectuals

Jesus christ

Journalism and journalists

Quotes on Law and lawyers

Quotes on Lies and lying

Quotes on Losers and losing

Parents and parenting

Philosophers and philosophy

Quotes on Photography

Quotes on Possibilities

Quotes on Procrastination

Quotes on Respectability

Quotes on Speakers and speaking

Quotes on Things and little things

Thoughts and thinking

Test your English Language

World Adventures

Most Expensive Pieces Of Jewelry In The World

Precautions while using Laboratory Thermometers

The Worlds Most Beautiful Buildings

School Lunch Tips

Top Cricket Umpires in the world

Most Creative Beds

Fashion Designer Cars in the world

Most Amazing Fountains Around The World

Rules to play Underwater Photography

Luxurious Hospitals Most Patients Would Kill To Die In

Beautiful National Parks Around the World

Baby Friendly Decorations Ideas

Benefits of Ugli fruits

Benefits of Maizes

Precautions while using Facebook

Precautions while using Garden Tools

Precautions while using Induction Cooker