Motivational Quotes

Power

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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

Seneca

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

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

Cecil, Richard

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

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

Kinkel

11.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

12.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

13.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

15.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

16.

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

Lao-Tzu

17.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

18.

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

Rand, Ayn

19.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

21.

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

Proverb, Arabian

22.

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

23.

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

Alinsky, Saul

24.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

25.

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

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

28.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

30.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

31.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

Hill, Napoleon

35.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

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.

38.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

39.

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

Aeschylus

40.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

41.

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

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

Seneca

44.

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

Baldwin, James

45.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

46.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Russell, Bertrand

48.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Macmillan, Harold

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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