Motivational Quotes

Power

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

- Steinem, Gloria

Best Quotes about Power

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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

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

Bible

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

11.

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

12.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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

14.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

15.

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

Boseley, Sarah

16.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

17.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

18.

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

Cecil, Richard

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

22.

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

Mencken, H. L.

23.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

25.

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

26.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

27.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

28.

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

29.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

32.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

33.

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

Malcolm X

34.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

35.

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

Joseph Farrell

36.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

37.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

38.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

41.

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

Eliot, T. S.

42.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

43.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

44.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

45.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

46.

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

Amy Tan

47.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

48.

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

Lao-Tzu

49.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Carnegie, Dale

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