Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Power

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

13.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

14.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

15.

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

Herrich

16.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

18.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

19.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

20.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

21.

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

22.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

23.

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

Bible

24.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

25.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

26.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

30.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

32.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

35.

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

Friedman, Milton

36.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

37.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

38.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Smith, Sydney

40.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

41.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

Cecil, Richard

43.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

45.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

46.

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

47.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

48.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

49.

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

50.

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia