Motivational Quotes

Power

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Power

1.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

2.

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

Steinem, Gloria

3.

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

Friedman, Milton

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Amy Tan

7.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

8.

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.

9.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

10.

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

Malcolm X

11.

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

Wordsworth, William

12.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

13.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

15.

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

Harry Shearer

16.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

19.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

20.

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

21.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

22.

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

Smith, Sydney

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

27.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

31.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

32.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

34.

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

35.

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

Seneca

36.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

38.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

39.

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

Proverb, Spanish

40.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

41.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

42.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

43.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

45.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

46.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

47.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

48.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

50.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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