Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Dr. Thomas Fuller

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

4.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

5.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

6.

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.

7.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

8.

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

Carnegie, Dale

9.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Seneca

13.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

14.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

15.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

16.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

17.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

19.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

20.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

21.

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

22.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

23.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

24.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

25.

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

Bible

26.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

27.

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

Steinem, Gloria

28.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

33.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

34.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

35.

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

36.

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

Wieder, Marcia

37.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

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

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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.

40.

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

Aeschylus

41.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

42.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

43.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

44.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

45.

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.

46.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

47.

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

John Stuart Mill

48.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

49.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.