Motivational Quotes

Power

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

- Harry Shearer

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

2.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

3.

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

Hill, Napoleon

4.

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

Proverb

5.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

6.

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

7.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

8.

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

Camus, Albert

9.

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

10.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

12.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

13.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

14.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

16.

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

Tilly

17.

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

18.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

19.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

20.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

23.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

24.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

25.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

26.

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

Baldwin, James

27.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

28.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

29.

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

30.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

31.

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

Lao-Tzu

32.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

33.

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

34.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

35.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

36.

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

Byrnes, James F.

37.

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

Swift, Jonathan

38.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

39.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

40.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

41.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

43.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

44.

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

45.

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

Russell, Bertrand

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

48.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.