Motivational Quotes

Power

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

- Propertius, Sextus

Best Quotes about Power

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kinkel

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

Smith, Sydney

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Weil, Simone

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

10.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

11.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

12.

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

Seneca

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Proverb

15.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

16.

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

Camus, Albert

17.

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

Harry Shearer

18.

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

Wieder, Marcia

19.

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

Malcolm X

20.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

21.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

22.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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.

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

Wordsworth, William

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

27.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

28.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

31.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

32.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

34.

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

Lao-Tzu

35.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

36.

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

37.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

38.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

39.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

40.

The point of power is always in the present moment.