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.

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

2.

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

Baltasar Gracian

3.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

4.

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

5.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

6.

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

7.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

8.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

9.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

10.

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

Russell, Bertrand

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

13.

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

Hooker, Richard

14.

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

Wieder, Marcia

15.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

16.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

17.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

18.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

19.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

20.

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

Proverb, Norse

21.

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

Camus, Albert

22.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

23.

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

Smith, Sydney

24.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

25.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

26.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

29.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

31.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

35.

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

Eliot, T. S.

36.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

37.

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

38.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

39.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

40.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

41.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

42.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

43.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

44.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

45.

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

Weil, Simone

46.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

47.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

48.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

49.

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

Seneca

50.

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

Cotvos