Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Friedman, Milton

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

10.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

12.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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

14.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

15.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

Swift, Jonathan

17.

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

18.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

19.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

20.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

21.

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

Kinkel

22.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

23.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

25.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Barthes, Roland

29.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

30.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

31.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

34.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

35.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

36.

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

White, Theodore

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

40.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

41.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

42.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

43.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

44.

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

Fuller, Thomas

45.

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

Banks, Harry F.

46.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

Proverb, Arabian

48.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

49.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

50.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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