Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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

Weil, Simone

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

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

Byrnes, James F.

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

Cecil, Richard

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

12.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

13.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

14.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

15.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

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

17.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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

Baldwin, James

19.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

20.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

21.

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

Aeschylus

22.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

24.

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

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

Eliot, T. S.

26.

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

27.

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

Russell, Bertrand

28.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

29.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

30.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

31.

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

Banks, Harry F.

32.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

33.

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

34.

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

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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

36.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

37.

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

Seneca

38.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

40.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

41.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

42.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Seneca

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