Motivational Quotes

Power

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Bannister, Roger

2.

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

Steinem, Gloria

3.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

4.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

5.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

6.

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

White, Theodore

7.

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

Amy Tan

8.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

10.

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

11.

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

12.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

13.

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

14.

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

Cotvos

15.

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

16.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

17.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

18.

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

19.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

20.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

21.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

22.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

23.

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

Macmillan, Harold

24.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

25.

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

Proverb, Arabian

26.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

27.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

29.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

30.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

33.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

34.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

35.

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

36.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

37.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

38.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb

41.

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

42.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

43.

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