Motivational Quotes

Power

He has the power who the majority believe in.

- Raupach

Best Quotes about Power

1.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

2.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

3.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

4.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

5.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

6.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

7.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

8.

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

Alinsky, Saul

9.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

10.

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

11.

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

Swift, Jonathan

12.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

13.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

14.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

15.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

16.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

17.

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

Archimedes

18.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

19.

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

Hooker, Richard

20.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

21.

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

Hazlitt, William

22.

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

23.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

24.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

26.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

27.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

28.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

29.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

30.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Malcolm X

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

40.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

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

42.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

43.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

44.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

45.

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

Einstein, Albert

46.

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.

47.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

50.

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