Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Dr. Thomas Fuller

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Archimedes

2.

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

Carnegie, Dale

3.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

4.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

5.

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

6.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

7.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

8.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

9.

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

10.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

11.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

12.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

13.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

14.

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

Hazlitt, William

15.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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.

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

Bible

18.

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

Hill, Napoleon

19.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

22.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

25.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

26.

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

27.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

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

Smith, Sydney

29.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

30.

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

Seneca

31.

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

Wieder, Marcia

32.

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

Malcolm X

33.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

34.

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

Joseph Farrell

35.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

36.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

37.

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

38.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

39.

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

Rand, Ayn

40.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

41.

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

Baldwin, James

42.

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

Russell, Bertrand

43.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

44.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

45.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

46.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

47.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

48.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

49.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

50.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.