Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

2.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

3.

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

4.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

5.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

6.

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

Malcolm X

7.

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

8.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

9.

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

Russell, Bertrand

11.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

12.

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

13.

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

14.

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

Wordsworth, William

15.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

18.

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

Lindner, Robert

19.

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

20.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

21.

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

22.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

23.

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

Steinem, Gloria

24.

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

Proverb, Spanish

25.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

26.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

27.

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.

28.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

29.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

Wieder, Marcia

31.

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

Mann, Horace

32.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

34.

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

35.

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

Eliot, T. S.

36.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

37.

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

38.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

39.

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

Baldwin, James

40.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.