Motivational Quotes

Power

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

- Bruyere, Jean De La

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

2.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

3.

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

Seneca

4.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

5.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

7.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

8.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

10.

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

Apocrypha

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

13.

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

14.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

15.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

16.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

17.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

19.

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

Joseph Farrell

20.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

21.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

23.

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

Malcolm X

24.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

25.

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

Bacon, Francis

26.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

27.

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

Alinsky, Saul

28.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

29.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

30.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

31.

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

Rand, Ayn

32.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

33.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

35.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

36.

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

Lord Macaulay

37.

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

38.

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

Friedman, Milton

39.

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

Boseley, Sarah

40.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

41.

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.

42.

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

Proverb, Arabian

43.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

44.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

46.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Elie Wiesel

50.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas