Motivational Quotes

Power

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

- Boseley, Sarah

Best Quotes about Power

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

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Adams, John

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

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Elie Wiesel

10.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

11.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

12.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

13.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Mencken, H. L.

18.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

19.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

20.

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

Swift, Jonathan

21.

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

22.

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

Friedman, Milton

23.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

24.

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

25.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

30.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

31.

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

Lao-Tzu

32.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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

35.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

36.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

37.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

38.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

39.

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

40.

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

Archimedes

41.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

42.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

44.

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

Malcolm X

45.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

46.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

47.

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

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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

Barthes, Roland

49.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Alinsky, Saul

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