Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Power

1.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

2.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

3.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

5.

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

Lao-Tzu

6.

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

Bacon, Francis

7.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

8.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

10.

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

Cotvos

11.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

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

Lord Macaulay

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

15.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

16.

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

Rand, Ayn

17.

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.

18.

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

Bannister, Roger

19.

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

Aeschylus

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

Steinem, Gloria

22.

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

23.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

24.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

25.

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

Friedman, Milton

26.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

27.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

30.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

31.

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

Macmillan, Harold

32.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

33.

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

Hooker, Richard

34.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

35.

Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

39.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

40.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

41.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

42.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

43.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

44.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

45.

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

Friedman, Milton

46.

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

47.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

48.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

49.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

50.

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