Motivational Quotes

Power

Voice of one, voice of none.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Power

1.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

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

3.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

5.

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

Hooker, Richard

6.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

7.

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

Proverb

8.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

9.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

10.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

11.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

12.

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

Baldwin, James

13.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

14.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

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

Bible

17.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

20.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

21.

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

Einstein, Albert

22.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

23.

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

Lao-Tzu

24.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

25.

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

Elie Wiesel

26.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

27.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

32.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

33.

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

Seneca

34.

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

35.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

36.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

38.

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

39.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

41.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

42.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

43.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

45.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

46.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

47.

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

Carnegie, Dale

48.

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