Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

4.

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

Billings, Josh

5.

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

Proverb, Norse

6.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

7.

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

Friedman, Milton

8.

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

Barthes, Roland

9.

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

Wieder, Marcia

10.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

11.

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

Adams, John

12.

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

Lord Macaulay

13.

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

Bannister, Roger

14.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

16.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

17.

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.

18.

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

Rostand, Jean

19.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

20.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

24.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

25.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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

Capone, Al

27.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

28.

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

Macmillan, Harold

29.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

30.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

31.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

32.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

33.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

35.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

36.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

White, Theodore

39.

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

40.

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

Lao-Tzu

41.

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

42.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

43.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

44.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

46.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

47.

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

48.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

49.

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

50.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison