Motivational Quotes

Power

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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.

2.

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

3.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

5.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

6.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

8.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

9.

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

10.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

11.

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

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

White, Theodore

15.

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

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

17.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

18.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

19.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

20.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

21.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

23.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

24.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

25.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

26.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

27.

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

Lord Macaulay

28.

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

29.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

30.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

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

Aeschylus

32.

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

Seneca

33.

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

Malcolm X

34.

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

Archimedes

35.

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

Mann, Horace

36.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

37.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

38.

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

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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

40.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

41.

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.

42.

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