Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Joseph Farrell

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

2.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

3.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

4.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

5.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

6.

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

Camus, Albert

7.

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

Friedman, Milton

8.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

11.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

14.

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

15.

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

16.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

17.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

18.

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

Harry Shearer

19.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

20.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

21.

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

Fuller, Thomas

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

24.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

25.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

27.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

28.

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

Barthes, Roland

29.

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

Henrik Ibsen

30.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

31.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

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

Aeschylus

33.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

34.

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

Smith, Sydney

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.

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

Swift, Jonathan

37.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

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

Rostand, Jean

39.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

40.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

41.

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

42.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

43.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

44.

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

Byrnes, James F.

45.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

46.

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

Wieder, Marcia

47.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

48.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

49.

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