Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Power

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

Bacon, Francis

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Herrich

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

10.

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

11.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

12.

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

13.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

14.

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

Barthes, Roland

15.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

16.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

17.

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

White, Theodore

18.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

19.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

20.

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

Proverb, Spanish

21.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

22.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

25.

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

Smith, Sydney

26.

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

Cotvos

27.

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

28.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

29.

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

30.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

34.

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

Hill, Napoleon

35.

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

Hooker, Richard

36.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

37.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

38.

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

43.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

44.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

45.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

46.

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

47.

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

Bannister, Roger

48.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

49.

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

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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