Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Wieder, Marcia

Best Quotes about Power

1.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

2.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

3.

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

4.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

5.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

6.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

7.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

8.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

9.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Baldwin, James

12.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

16.

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

John Stuart Mill

17.

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

18.

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

19.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

20.

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

Lord Macaulay

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Henrik Ibsen

23.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

24.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

25.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

26.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

27.

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

Wordsworth, William

28.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

29.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

30.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

32.

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

33.

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

35.

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

Swift, Jonathan

36.

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

Proverb, Arabian

37.

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

38.

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

Steinem, Gloria

39.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

40.

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

Seneca

41.

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.