Motivational Quotes

Power

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Power

1.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

2.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

3.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

4.

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

Mann, Horace

5.

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

6.

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

Wieder, Marcia

7.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

9.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

10.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

14.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

15.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

17.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Carnegie, Dale

19.

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

Seneca

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

23.

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

Baldwin, James

24.

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

White, Theodore

25.

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

26.

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

Cotvos

27.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

28.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

29.

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

Cecil, Richard

30.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

31.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

32.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

33.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

34.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

35.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

37.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

38.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

39.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

40.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

41.

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

42.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

43.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

44.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

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

46.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

47.

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

Rostand, Jean

48.

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

Shakespeare, William

49.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.