Motivational Quotes

Power

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

- Vaneigem, Raoul

Best Quotes about Power

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

Steinem, Gloria

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

Seneca

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Steffens, Lincoln

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

12.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

13.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

14.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

15.

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

John Stuart Mill

16.

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

17.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

18.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

19.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

20.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

21.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

22.

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

24.

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

25.

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

26.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

27.

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

Proverb

28.

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Barthes, Roland

30.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

31.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

33.

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

Swift, Jonathan

34.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

35.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

36.

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

37.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

38.

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

39.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

40.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

41.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

42.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

43.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

44.

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

Smith, Sydney

45.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

48.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

49.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible