Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Kazantzakis, Nikos

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

2.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

3.

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

Rand, Ayn

4.

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

Billings, Josh

5.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

6.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

7.

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

Wordsworth, William

8.

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

9.

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

Weil, Simone

10.

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

11.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

12.

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

13.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

14.

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

Proverb, Norse

15.

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

16.

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

Baltasar Gracian

17.

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

Baldwin, James

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

21.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

22.

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

Carnegie, Dale

23.

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

24.

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

Elie Wiesel

25.

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

Bacon, Francis

26.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

27.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

28.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

32.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

40.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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.

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

43.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

46.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.