Motivational Quotes

Power

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Shakespeare, William

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Barthes, Roland

10.

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

11.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

12.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

13.

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

Wordsworth, William

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

16.

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

Baldwin, James

17.

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

Seneca

18.

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

Weil, Simone

19.

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

Henrik Ibsen

20.

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

21.

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, Spanish

24.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

25.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

26.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

27.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

28.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

29.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

30.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

31.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Bannister, Roger

35.

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

Eliot, T. S.

36.

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

37.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

38.

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

Joseph Farrell

39.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

40.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

42.

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

43.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

44.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

47.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

48.

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

49.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Adams, John