Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Fuller, Thomas

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Malcolm X

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Thatcher, Margaret

10.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

12.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

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

Lao-Tzu

15.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

16.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

18.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

19.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

21.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Aeschylus

24.

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

Joseph Farrell

25.

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

26.

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

Rostand, Jean

27.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

28.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

33.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

34.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

35.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

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

37.

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

Hill, Napoleon

38.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

39.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

40.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

42.

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

Proverb, Arabian

43.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

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

Proverb, Spanish

45.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Harry Shearer

47.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

48.

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

Kinkel

49.

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

50.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria