Motivational Quotes

Power

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

1.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

2.

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

Mencken, H. L.

3.

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

4.

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

5.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

7.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

8.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

9.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

10.

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

11.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

13.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

14.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

15.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

16.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

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

Joseph Farrell

18.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

19.

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

Smith, Sydney

20.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

22.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

25.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

26.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

27.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

28.

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

Amy Tan

29.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

30.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

31.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

32.

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

Steinem, Gloria

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

35.

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

Fromm, Erich

36.

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

Carnegie, Dale

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

39.

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

Malcolm X

40.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

43.

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

44.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

45.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

46.

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

Proverb, Spanish

47.

The will of man is his happiness.