Motivational Quotes

Power

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.

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

2.

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

Fuller, Thomas

3.

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

4.

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

Shakespeare, William

5.

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

Wordsworth, William

6.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

7.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

8.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

9.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

10.

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

Weil, Simone

11.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

12.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

14.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

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

16.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

17.

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

Barthes, Roland

18.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

19.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

20.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

22.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

23.

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

Henrik Ibsen

24.

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

25.

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

Smith, Sydney

26.

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.

27.

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

28.

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

Harry Shearer

29.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

30.

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

31.

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

Hazlitt, William

32.

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

Alinsky, Saul

33.

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

Wieder, Marcia

34.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Rand, Ayn

36.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

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

Baltasar Gracian

38.

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

Adams, John

39.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

40.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

41.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

42.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

43.

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

Seneca

44.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

45.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

46.

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

John Stuart Mill

47.

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

48.

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

49.

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

Capone, Al

50.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William