Motivational Quotes

Power

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

- Castaneda, Carlos

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Carnegie, Dale

2.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

3.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

4.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

5.

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

Russell, Bertrand

6.

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

7.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

8.

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.

9.

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.

10.

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

Friedman, Milton

11.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

13.

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

14.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

15.

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

Lao-Tzu

16.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

17.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

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

19.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

20.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

21.

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

Proverb, Spanish

22.

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

Byrnes, James F.

23.

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

Cecil, Richard

24.

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

Hill, Napoleon

25.

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

Smith, Sydney

26.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

27.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

28.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

30.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

31.

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

Adams, John

32.

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

Proverb, Arabian

33.

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

Fromm, Erich

34.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

35.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

36.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

Macmillan, Harold

38.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

39.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

41.

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

Capone, Al

42.

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

43.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

44.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

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

46.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

47.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

48.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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