Motivational Quotes

Power

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

- Boseley, Sarah

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Henrik Ibsen

2.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

3.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

4.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

5.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

6.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

7.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

8.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

9.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

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

11.

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

Lord Macaulay

12.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Banks, Harry F.

16.

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.

17.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

21.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

22.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

23.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

24.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

25.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Bannister, Roger

29.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

30.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

32.

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

Seneca

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb

35.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

36.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

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