Motivational Quotes

Power

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Power

1.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

2.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

3.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

4.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

5.

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

Steinem, Gloria

6.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

7.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

8.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

9.

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

Russell, Bertrand

10.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Spanish

13.

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

14.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

15.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

16.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

17.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

18.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

19.

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

Malcolm X

20.

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

White, Theodore

21.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

22.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

24.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Proverb, Norse

26.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

27.

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

Joseph Farrell

28.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

29.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

32.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

33.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

34.

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

35.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

36.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

37.

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

Adams, John

38.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

39.

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

Bannister, Roger

40.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

41.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

42.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

43.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

44.

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

Lao-Tzu

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Lord Macaulay

48.

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

Friedman, Milton

49.

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.

50.

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

Steinem, Gloria