Motivational Quotes

Power

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

- Dass, Ram

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

2.

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

3.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

4.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

5.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

6.

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

7.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

8.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

9.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

10.

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

Banks, Harry F.

11.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

12.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

13.

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

Rand, Ayn

14.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

15.

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

Malcolm X

16.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

17.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

18.

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

Malcolm X

19.

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

20.

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

Harry Shearer

21.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

22.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

25.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

26.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

27.

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

28.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

29.

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

Joseph Farrell

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

33.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

34.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

37.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

38.

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

Mann, Horace

39.

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.

Marden, Orison Swett

40.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

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