Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Stephen Vincent Benet

Best Quotes about Power

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

Proverb, Norse

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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

Joseph Farrell

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

Aeschylus

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

10.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

11.

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

Proverb, Arabian

12.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

13.

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

14.

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

Lord Macaulay

15.

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

16.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

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

18.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

19.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

20.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

21.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

22.

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

Eliot, T. S.

23.

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

Cecil, Richard

24.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

25.

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

Kinkel

26.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

29.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

Einstein, Albert

31.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

32.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

35.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

36.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

37.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

38.

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

Camus, Albert

39.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

40.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

41.

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

42.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

43.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

44.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

45.

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

Rostand, Jean

46.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

47.

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

Boseley, Sarah

48.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

49.

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

White, Theodore

50.

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