Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

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

Weil, Simone

3.

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

Cecil, Richard

4.

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

Alinsky, Saul

5.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

6.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.

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

8.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

9.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

10.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

11.

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

Lao-Tzu

12.

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

Lord Macaulay

13.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

14.

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

15.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

16.

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

Proverb, Norse

17.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

18.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

21.

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

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

24.

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

25.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

26.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

28.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

29.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

30.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

32.

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

Aeschylus

33.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

34.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

35.

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

36.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

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

Henrik Ibsen

38.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

39.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.