Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lindner, Robert

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

2.

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

Fuller, Thomas

3.

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

Malcolm X

4.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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

Lord Macaulay

6.

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

Bible

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

10.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

11.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

13.

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

Wordsworth, William

14.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

15.

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

16.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

17.

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

Einstein, Albert

18.

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

Rand, Ayn

19.

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

Archimedes

20.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

21.

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

Baltasar Gracian

22.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

23.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

26.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

27.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

30.

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

Alinsky, Saul

31.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

32.

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

Seneca

33.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

34.

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

35.

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

Barthes, Roland

36.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

39.

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

Amy Tan

40.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

41.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

42.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

43.

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

44.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

45.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

46.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.