Motivational Quotes

Power

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

- Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Best Quotes about Power

1.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

2.

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

Lord Macaulay

3.

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

Kinkel

4.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

5.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

6.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

7.

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

Adams, John

8.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

9.

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

Friedman, Milton

10.

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

11.

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

White, Theodore

12.

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

Barthes, Roland

13.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

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

15.

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

Steinem, Gloria

16.

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

Seneca

17.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

18.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

19.

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

20.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

22.

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

Malcolm X

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

26.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

27.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

28.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

29.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

31.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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

33.

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

Archimedes

34.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

35.

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

Russell, Bertrand

36.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

37.

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

Proverb, Norse

38.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

39.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

40.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

41.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

42.

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

Eliot, T. S.

43.

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

44.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

47.

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