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.

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

Harry Shearer

2.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

3.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

4.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

5.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

6.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

7.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

8.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

10.

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

Rostand, Jean

11.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

12.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

13.

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

14.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

15.

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

16.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

18.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

19.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

20.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

21.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

22.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

23.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

24.

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

Billings, Josh

25.

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.

26.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

27.

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

Einstein, Albert

28.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

29.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

30.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

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

Mencken, H. L.

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, Arabian

34.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

36.

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