Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lord Macaulay

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Fuller, Thomas

2.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

3.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

4.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

5.

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

6.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

7.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

8.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

9.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

10.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

11.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

12.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

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

15.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

16.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

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

Lao-Tzu

19.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

Archimedes

25.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

26.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

27.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

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

Malcolm X

29.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

30.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

31.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

32.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

33.

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

34.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

35.

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

Kinkel

36.

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

Harry Shearer

37.

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

38.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

39.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

40.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

41.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

42.

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

43.

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

44.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

46.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

47.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

50.

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich