Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Steinem, Gloria

2.

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

Cecil, Richard

3.

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

4.

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

Seneca

5.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

6.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

7.

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

Fromm, Erich

8.

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

Alinsky, Saul

9.

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.

10.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

11.

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

12.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

14.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

15.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

17.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

20.

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

21.

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

Hazlitt, William

22.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

23.

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

Seneca

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb

26.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

27.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

28.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

29.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

30.

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

Bible

31.

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

32.

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

33.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

34.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

35.

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

Swift, Jonathan

36.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

37.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

39.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

40.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

41.

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

Baltasar Gracian

42.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

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

Banks, Harry F.

44.

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

Malcolm X

45.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

46.

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

Friedman, Milton

47.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

48.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

49.

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

50.

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

Mann, Horace