Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

2.

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

3.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

4.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

5.

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

6.

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

Swift, Jonathan

7.

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

Capone, Al

8.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

10.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Macmillan, Harold

12.

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

Apocrypha

13.

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

Seneca

14.

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

Joseph Farrell

15.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

16.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

18.

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

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

21.

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

Lao-Tzu

22.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Wordsworth, William

26.

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

Friedman, Milton

27.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

31.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

32.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

33.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

35.

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

36.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

37.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

38.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

39.

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

Baltasar Gracian

40.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

41.

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

Cotvos

42.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

43.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

44.

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

Cecil, Richard

45.

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

Wieder, Marcia

46.

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

Fromm, Erich

47.

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

48.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

49.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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