Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

1.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

2.

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.

3.

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

Capone, Al

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.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

6.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

7.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

8.

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

9.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

10.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

12.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

13.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

14.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

15.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Carnegie, Dale

18.

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

Eliot, T. S.

19.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

20.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Alinsky, Saul

23.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

24.

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

Friedman, Milton

25.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

26.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

27.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

28.

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

29.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

30.

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

Cotvos

31.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

32.

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

33.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

34.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

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

Bible

38.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

39.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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

Swift, Jonathan

42.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

43.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

44.

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

Bannister, Roger

45.

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

Rostand, Jean

46.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

47.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

48.

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

49.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

50.

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

Bevan, Aneurin