Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

1.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

2.

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

3.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

4.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

5.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

6.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

7.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

8.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

9.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

10.

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

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

14.

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

15.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

16.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

17.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

18.

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

Adams, John

19.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

22.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

23.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

24.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Herrich

26.

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

Barthes, Roland

27.

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

28.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

29.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

30.

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

Cecil, Richard

31.

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

Hooker, Richard

32.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

33.

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

Proverb, Arabian

34.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

35.

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

Baldwin, James

36.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

37.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

Wordsworth, William

42.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

43.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

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

Rostand, Jean

45.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

46.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

47.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

48.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

49.

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

Lao-Tzu

50.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La