Motivational Quotes

Power

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

2.

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

3.

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

4.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

5.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

6.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

7.

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

Billings, Josh

8.

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

9.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

10.

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

Harry Shearer

11.

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

12.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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

Fromm, Erich

14.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

15.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Rand, Ayn

17.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

19.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

22.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

23.

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

White, Theodore

24.

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

Boseley, Sarah

25.

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

26.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

27.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

28.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

29.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

30.

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

Elie Wiesel

31.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

32.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

35.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

36.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

37.

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

Bannister, Roger

38.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

39.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

40.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

41.

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

Friedman, Milton

42.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

Adams, John

44.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Mann, Horace

46.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

47.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

48.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

49.

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

50.

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