Motivational Quotes

Power

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

- Bannister, Roger

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

2.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

3.

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

4.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

5.

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

6.

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

Alinsky, Saul

7.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

8.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

9.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

10.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

12.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

13.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

14.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

16.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

17.

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

Malcolm X

18.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

19.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

20.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

21.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

22.

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

23.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

24.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

25.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

26.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

27.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

28.

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

30.

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

Henrik Ibsen

31.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

32.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

33.

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

Hazlitt, William

34.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

35.

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

Elie Wiesel

36.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

37.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

38.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

39.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

40.

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

41.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

42.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

Joseph Farrell

44.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.