Motivational Quotes

Power

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

- Jordan, William George

Best Quotes about Power

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Jordan, William George

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

11.

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

Malcolm X

12.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

13.

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

14.

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

Seneca

15.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

16.

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

Smith, Sydney

17.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

18.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

19.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

21.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

22.

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

Fuller, Thomas

23.

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

Barthes, Roland

26.

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

Einstein, Albert

27.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Lindner, Robert

29.

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

30.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

31.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

32.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

33.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

34.

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

Wieder, Marcia

35.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

36.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

37.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

38.

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

39.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

40.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

41.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

Russell, Bertrand

44.

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

45.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

46.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

47.

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

Wordsworth, William

48.

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