Motivational Quotes

Power

The greatest power is often simple patience.

- Cossman, E. Joseph

Best Quotes about Power

1.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

3.

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

Hill, Napoleon

4.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

5.

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

Harry Shearer

6.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

7.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

8.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

9.

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

Alinsky, Saul

10.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Lord Macaulay

14.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

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

17.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

18.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

22.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

23.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

24.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

25.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

26.

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

27.

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

John Stuart Mill

28.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

30.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

31.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

33.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

34.

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

Capone, Al

35.

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

Wordsworth, William

36.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

37.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

38.

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

Swift, Jonathan

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

41.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

43.

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

44.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

45.

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

46.

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.

47.

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