Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

2.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

3.

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

Aeschylus

4.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

5.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

6.

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

7.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

8.

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

9.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

10.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

11.

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

Proverb, Norse

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

14.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

15.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

16.

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.

17.

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

18.

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

Friedman, Milton

19.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

20.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

23.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

24.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

25.

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

Malcolm X

26.

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

27.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

28.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

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

30.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

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

Herrich

32.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

33.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

36.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

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

Kinkel

38.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

39.

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

Billings, Josh

40.

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

Lao-Tzu

41.

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

Seneca

42.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

43.

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

44.

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

Friedman, Milton

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

47.

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