Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

2.

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

Banks, Harry F.

3.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

4.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

5.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

6.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

7.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

9.

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

Henrik Ibsen

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

12.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

13.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

14.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

15.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

16.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

17.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

18.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

19.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

22.

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

Archimedes

23.

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

24.

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

Boseley, Sarah

25.

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

Eliot, T. S.

26.

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

Swift, Jonathan

27.

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

Rostand, Jean

28.

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

Bannister, Roger

29.

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

30.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

31.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

32.

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

Malcolm X

33.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

36.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

37.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

38.

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

39.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

40.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

41.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

42.

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