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.

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

Wieder, Marcia

2.

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

Macmillan, Harold

3.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

4.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

5.

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

Seneca

6.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

8.

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

Weil, Simone

9.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

10.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

11.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

12.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

13.

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

14.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

15.

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

Swift, Jonathan

16.

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

17.

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

Henrik Ibsen

18.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

19.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

26.

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.

27.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

28.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

29.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

31.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

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

Camus, Albert

33.

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

Malcolm X

34.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

35.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

36.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

37.

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

Lao-Tzu

38.

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

39.

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

Rostand, Jean

40.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

41.

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

42.

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

43.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

45.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

46.

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