Motivational Quotes

Power

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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

10.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

11.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Spanish

14.

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

15.

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

Tilly

16.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

17.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

18.

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

Aeschylus

19.

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

20.

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

21.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

22.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

23.

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

Banks, Harry F.

24.

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

Barthes, Roland

25.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

26.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

27.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

28.

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

Fromm, Erich

29.

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

Elie Wiesel

30.

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

31.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

35.

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

36.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

37.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

38.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

40.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

41.

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

Joseph Farrell

42.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

43.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

44.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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