Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is the by-product of understanding.

- Bronowski, Jacob

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Camus, Albert

2.

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

3.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

4.

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

Mencken, H. L.

5.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

6.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

7.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

8.

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

Proverb, Norse

9.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

10.

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

Lao-Tzu

11.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

12.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

Russell, Bertrand

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

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

Macmillan, Harold

18.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

19.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Friedman, Milton

21.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

22.

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

Proverb, Spanish

23.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

24.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

25.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

27.

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

28.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

30.

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

Steinem, Gloria

31.

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

Wordsworth, William

32.

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

33.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

34.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

35.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Elie Wiesel

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

43.

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

Adams, John

44.

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

Hill, Napoleon

45.

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

46.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.