Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

11.

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

12.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

13.

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

14.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

15.

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

16.

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

Hazlitt, William

17.

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

18.

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

Bible

19.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

20.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

21.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

22.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Seneca

25.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

26.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

27.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

28.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

34.

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

Mencken, H. L.

35.

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

Elie Wiesel

36.

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

Rostand, Jean

37.

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

Herrich

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

40.

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

John Stuart Mill

41.

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.

42.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Fuller, Thomas

46.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

47.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

48.

Will is character in action.