Motivational Quotes

Power

The look of a king is itself a deed.

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

2.

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

Wieder, Marcia

3.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

4.

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

5.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

6.

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

Fuller, Thomas

7.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

8.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

9.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

11.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

12.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

13.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

14.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

15.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

17.

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.

18.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

19.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

21.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

22.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

23.

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

Mann, Horace

24.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

25.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

26.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

27.

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

28.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

29.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

30.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

32.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

33.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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.

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

Eliot, T. S.

36.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

37.

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

38.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

39.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

40.

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

Byrnes, James F.

41.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Camus, Albert

44.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

45.

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

Archimedes

46.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

48.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

49.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

50.

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