Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Herrich

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

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

3.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

4.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

6.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

7.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

8.

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

Friedman, Milton

9.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

11.

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

12.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

14.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

18.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

19.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

20.

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

Steinem, Gloria

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

25.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

26.

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

27.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

29.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

30.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

33.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

35.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

36.

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

Archimedes

37.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

38.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

39.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

40.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

41.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

42.

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