Motivational Quotes

Power

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Power

1.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

3.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

4.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

5.

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

6.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

7.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

8.

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

9.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

10.

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

Aeschylus

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

13.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

14.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

15.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

16.

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

Harry Shearer

17.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

18.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

19.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

21.

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

22.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

23.

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.

24.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

26.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

28.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

29.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

30.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

33.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

34.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

35.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

36.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

37.

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

Barthes, Roland

38.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

39.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

40.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

41.

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

42.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

44.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

A word after a word after a word is power.