Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

2.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

3.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

4.

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

Archimedes

5.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

6.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

7.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

8.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

9.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Malcolm X

12.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

13.

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

Lao-Tzu

14.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

17.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

18.

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

Rostand, Jean

19.

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

20.

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

Harry Shearer

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.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

23.

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

Bible

24.

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.

25.

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

Weil, Simone

26.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

27.

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

Mencken, H. L.

28.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

32.

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

Bacon, Francis

33.

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

34.

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

Carnegie, Dale

35.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

36.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

Proverb, Arabian

38.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

39.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Friedman, Milton

42.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

43.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

44.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

45.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

46.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

47.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.

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

49.

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

Alinsky, Saul

50.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von