Motivational Quotes

Power

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

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

Macmillan, Harold

3.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

4.

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

5.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

6.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.

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

Camus, Albert

8.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

9.

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.

10.

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

11.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Baltasar Gracian

16.

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

Russell, Bertrand

17.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

19.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

20.

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

Henrik Ibsen

21.

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

Capone, Al

22.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

23.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

24.

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

25.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

26.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

29.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

30.

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

Malcolm X

31.

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

Proverb, Norse

32.

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

Proverb

33.

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

Smith, Sydney

34.

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

35.

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

Mann, Horace

36.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

37.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

38.

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

39.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

40.

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

Mencken, H. L.

41.

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

42.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

44.

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

Billings, Josh

45.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

46.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

47.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

48.

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

Wieder, Marcia

49.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

50.

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