Motivational Quotes

Power

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

- Gaddis, William

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

3.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

5.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

6.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

7.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

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

Lao-Tzu

9.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

10.

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

Baltasar Gracian

11.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

13.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

14.

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

Proverb, Norse

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

17.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

18.

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

Bannister, Roger

19.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Spanish

22.

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

Malcolm X

23.

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

24.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

25.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

26.

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

Amy Tan

27.

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

28.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

29.

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.

30.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

33.

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

Proverb

34.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

35.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

36.

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

Swift, Jonathan

37.

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

Carnegie, Dale

38.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

39.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Camus, Albert

41.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

42.

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

Fuller, Thomas

43.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

44.

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.

45.

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

Weil, Simone

46.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

47.

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

48.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

49.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

50.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William