Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Power

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Bible

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Seneca

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

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

Proverb, Arabian

15.

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

16.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

17.

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

18.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

19.

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

Harry Shearer

20.

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

Carnegie, Dale

21.

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

22.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

23.

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

Bacon, Francis

24.

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

Billings, Josh

25.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

26.

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

27.

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

Malcolm X

28.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

30.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

32.

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

33.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

35.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

37.

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

Eliot, T. S.

38.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

39.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

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

Bannister, Roger

41.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

42.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

43.

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

44.

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

Macmillan, Harold

45.

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

Baldwin, James

46.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

47.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

48.

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

Seneca

49.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

50.

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