Motivational Quotes

Power

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

- Tilney, Dr. Frederick

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

2.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

3.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

4.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

8.

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

Proverb, Spanish

9.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

10.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

11.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Swift, Jonathan

14.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

15.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

16.

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

Malcolm X

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.

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

Wordsworth, William

19.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

20.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

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

22.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

23.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

24.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

25.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

26.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

27.

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

Rostand, Jean

28.

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

Archimedes

29.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

30.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

31.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

32.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

34.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

35.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

36.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

38.

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

39.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

40.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

41.

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

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

44.

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

Eliot, T. S.

45.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

Fuller, Thomas

47.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

48.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

49.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

50.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca