Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

2.

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

Smith, Sydney

3.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

5.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

6.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

8.

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

Eliot, T. S.

9.

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

Alinsky, Saul

10.

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

Elie Wiesel

11.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

12.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

14.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb, Arabian

18.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

19.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

20.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

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

Harry Shearer

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

28.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

29.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

30.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

31.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

32.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

33.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

34.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

38.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

40.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

41.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

44.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

45.

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

46.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

47.

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.

48.

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

Weil, Simone

49.

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

50.

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

Rostand, Jean