Motivational Quotes

Power

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Harry Shearer

2.

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

Herrich

3.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

4.

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

5.

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

Barthes, Roland

6.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

7.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

8.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

9.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

10.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

13.

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

14.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

15.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

16.

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

Alinsky, Saul

17.

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

Amy Tan

18.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

19.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

21.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

22.

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

23.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

24.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

25.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

26.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

27.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

28.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

29.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

30.

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

Malcolm X

31.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

33.

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

White, Theodore

34.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

35.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

36.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

39.

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

40.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

41.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

42.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Archimedes

45.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

46.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

47.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

48.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

49.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

50.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal