Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Malcolm X

2.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

3.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

4.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

5.

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

Lao-Tzu

6.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

7.

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

Harry Shearer

8.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

9.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Wordsworth, William

13.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

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

Fuller, Thomas

15.

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Bannister, Roger

18.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

19.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

20.

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

21.

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

Kinkel

22.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

23.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

24.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

25.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

26.

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

Bible

27.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

28.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

29.

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

Lao-Tzu

30.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

33.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

34.

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

Russell, Bertrand

35.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

36.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

37.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Elie Wiesel

40.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

42.

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

43.

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

White, Theodore

44.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

45.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

46.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

47.

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

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

49.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

50.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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