Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

2.

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

Eliot, T. S.

3.

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

4.

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

Adams, John

5.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

6.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

7.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

8.

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

9.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

10.

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

Wordsworth, William

11.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

13.

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

14.

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

Fuller, Thomas

15.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

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

Banks, Harry F.

19.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

20.

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

Camus, Albert

21.

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

Henrik Ibsen

22.

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

Boseley, Sarah

23.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

24.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

25.

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

Rostand, Jean

26.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

27.

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

28.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

29.

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

Barthes, Roland

30.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

31.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

32.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

33.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

34.

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

Hazlitt, William

35.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

36.

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

37.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Proverb, Norse

39.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

41.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

42.

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

Wieder, Marcia

43.

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

44.

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

Cotvos

45.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

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

Joseph Farrell

47.

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

Kinkel

48.

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

49.

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

Carnegie, Dale

50.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon