Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Byrnes, James F.

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

2.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

3.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

4.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

5.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

6.

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

7.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

9.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

10.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

11.

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

Baldwin, James

12.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

Amy Tan

14.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

15.

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

Seneca

16.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

18.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

19.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

20.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

21.

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

Billings, Josh

22.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

23.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

24.

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

Hill, Napoleon

25.

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

26.

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

27.

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

Russell, Bertrand

28.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

29.

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

Elie Wiesel

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

32.

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

33.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

34.

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

Wieder, Marcia

35.

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

Fromm, Erich

36.

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

37.

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

Wordsworth, William

38.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

43.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

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

Shakespeare, William

45.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.