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.

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

2.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

3.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

4.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

5.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

6.

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

7.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

8.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

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

10.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

11.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

12.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

14.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

15.

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

16.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

17.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

18.

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

Wieder, Marcia

19.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb

23.

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

24.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

25.

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

Proverb, Arabian

26.

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

Friedman, Milton

27.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

28.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

29.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

30.

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

Malcolm X

31.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

32.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

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

Lao-Tzu

34.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

35.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

36.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

37.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

38.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

39.

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

40.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

41.

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

Swift, Jonathan

42.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Mann, Horace

46.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

47.

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

Aeschylus

48.

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