Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Power

1.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

2.

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

Hooker, Richard

3.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

4.

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

White, Theodore

5.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

6.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

7.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

8.

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

Proverb, Arabian

9.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

10.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

11.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

12.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

13.

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

Lao-Tzu

14.

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

Rand, Ayn

15.

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

Hill, Napoleon

16.

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

Seneca

17.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

18.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

19.

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

20.

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

Einstein, Albert

21.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

22.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

23.

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

Russell, Bertrand

24.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

25.

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

Friedman, Milton

26.

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

Steinem, Gloria

27.

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

28.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

29.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

30.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

31.

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

32.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

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

Wieder, Marcia

34.

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

Baltasar Gracian

35.

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

36.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

37.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

38.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

39.

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

40.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

41.

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

Byrnes, James F.

42.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

43.

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

Billings, Josh

44.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

45.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

46.

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

Apocrypha

47.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

48.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

49.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

50.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman