Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

10.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

11.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

12.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

Adams, John

17.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

18.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

19.

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

Steinem, Gloria

20.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

21.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

22.

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

23.

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

Bannister, Roger

24.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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.

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

27.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

29.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

30.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

31.

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

Cecil, Richard

32.

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

Fromm, Erich

33.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

34.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

35.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

37.

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

Malcolm X

38.

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

Cotvos

39.

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

Weil, Simone

40.

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

Lao-Tzu

41.

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

Baldwin, James

42.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

45.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

46.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

47.

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

48.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

49.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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