Motivational Quotes

Power

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Fromm, Erich

2.

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

Swift, Jonathan

3.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

4.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

5.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

9.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

10.

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

Bacon, Francis

11.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

12.

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

Smith, Sydney

13.

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

Seneca

14.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

15.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

16.

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

Malcolm X

17.

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

Amy Tan

18.

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

Hooker, Richard

19.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

20.

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

Proverb, Arabian

21.

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

22.

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

Rand, Ayn

23.

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

Bible

24.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

26.

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

27.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

28.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

29.

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

30.

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

Harry Shearer

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

32.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

33.

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

34.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

35.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

36.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

37.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Banks, Harry F.

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

Proverb, Norse

41.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

Malcolm X

43.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

44.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

45.

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

46.

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

47.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

48.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

49.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

50.

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