Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

1.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

2.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

3.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

4.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

5.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

6.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

7.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

8.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

9.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

10.

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

11.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

13.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

14.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

15.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

16.

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

Cecil, Richard

17.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

18.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

19.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

20.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

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

26.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

28.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

29.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

30.

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

31.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

32.

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

Macmillan, Harold

33.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

34.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

35.

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

John Stuart Mill

36.

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.

37.

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

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

Rostand, Jean

40.

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

Weil, Simone

41.

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

42.

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

43.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

45.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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