Motivational Quotes

Power

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

2.

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

3.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

4.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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

Eliot, T. S.

6.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.

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

Carnegie, Dale

8.

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

9.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

10.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

11.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

12.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

13.

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

14.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

15.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

16.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

17.

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

Apocrypha

18.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

19.

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

White, Theodore

20.

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

21.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

22.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

23.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

24.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

25.

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

26.

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

Mencken, H. L.

27.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

28.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

29.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

30.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

32.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

36.

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

37.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

38.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

39.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

40.

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

Malcolm X

41.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.