Motivational Quotes

Power

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

- Steinem, Gloria

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

2.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

3.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

4.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

5.

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

Banks, Harry F.

6.

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

Steinem, Gloria

7.

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

8.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

9.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

12.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

13.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

14.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

15.

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

Einstein, Albert

16.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

17.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

18.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

19.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

20.

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

Archimedes

21.

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

Adams, John

22.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

23.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

24.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

26.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

29.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

30.

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

Herrich

31.

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

John Stuart Mill

32.

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

Elie Wiesel

33.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

36.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

37.

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

38.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

39.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

40.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

41.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

42.

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

Carnegie, Dale

43.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

44.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

45.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

46.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

47.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

48.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

49.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

50.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry