Motivational Quotes

Power

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

4.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

5.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

6.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

7.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

8.

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.

9.

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

Lao-Tzu

10.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

11.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

14.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

15.

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

Billings, Josh

16.

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

White, Theodore

17.

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

18.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

19.

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

Einstein, Albert

20.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

21.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

22.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

23.

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

Proverb, Spanish

24.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

25.

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

Proverb

26.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

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

28.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

29.

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

Cotvos

30.

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

Aeschylus

31.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

32.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

33.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

34.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

36.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

37.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

38.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

39.

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

Harry Shearer

40.

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

Seneca

41.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

42.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

43.

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

44.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

45.

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

46.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

47.

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

48.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

49.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

50.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor