Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Kohe, J. Martin

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

2.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

3.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

5.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

7.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

8.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

9.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Rostand, Jean

12.

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

Macmillan, Harold

13.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

14.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

15.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

16.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

17.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

20.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

21.

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

Carnegie, Dale

22.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

24.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

25.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

26.

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

Wordsworth, William

27.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

30.

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

Boseley, Sarah

31.

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

Capone, Al

32.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

33.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

34.

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

35.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

37.

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

White, Theodore

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb, Norse

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

42.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

43.

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

44.

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

Billings, Josh

45.

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

46.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

47.

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

48.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

49.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

50.

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

Lao-Tzu