Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

1.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

2.

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

3.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

4.

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

5.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

6.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

7.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

8.

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

Seneca

9.

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.

10.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

12.

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

Wieder, Marcia

13.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

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

Cotvos

16.

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

Proverb, Arabian

17.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

18.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

19.

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

Friedman, Milton

20.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

21.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

22.

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

Bacon, Francis

23.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

24.

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

Camus, Albert

25.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

26.

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.

27.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

28.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Amy Tan

30.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

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

Malcolm X

32.

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

Wordsworth, William

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

35.

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

Rostand, Jean

36.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

37.

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

Russell, Bertrand

38.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

39.

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

Capone, Al

40.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

43.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

44.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

45.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

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

Lao-Tzu

47.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

48.

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

Herrich

49.

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

Lao-Tzu

50.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin