Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Malcolm X

2.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

3.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

4.

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

Proverb, Spanish

5.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

6.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

7.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

8.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

9.

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

Baltasar Gracian

10.

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

Seneca

11.

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

Friedman, Milton

12.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Einstein, Albert

18.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Boseley, Sarah

21.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

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

Proverb, Arabian

23.

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

White, Theodore

24.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

25.

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

26.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

27.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Aeschylus

29.

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

Malcolm X

30.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

Russell, Bertrand

32.

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

Swift, Jonathan

33.

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

Smith, Sydney

34.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

Seneca

38.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

39.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

40.

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

Banks, Harry F.

41.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

42.

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

43.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

44.

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

45.

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

46.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

47.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes