Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Power

1.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

2.

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

Lao-Tzu

3.

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

4.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

5.

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

Cecil, Richard

6.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

7.

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

Bacon, Francis

8.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

9.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

10.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

13.

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

14.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

15.

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

16.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

17.

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb, Norse

21.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

22.

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

23.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

24.

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

Seneca

25.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

26.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

27.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

28.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

29.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

31.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

33.

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

Friedman, Milton

34.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

35.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

36.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

38.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

39.

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

40.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

41.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

42.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

43.

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

44.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

45.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

46.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

47.

In oratory the will must predominate.