Motivational Quotes

Power

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

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

Proverb

3.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

4.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

5.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

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

Billings, Josh

7.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

8.

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

Rand, Ayn

9.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

11.

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

Harry Shearer

12.

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

Seneca

13.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

14.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

15.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

16.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

17.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

19.

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

Seneca

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

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

Kinkel

24.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

26.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

28.

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

29.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

30.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

31.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

32.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

33.

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

Friedman, Milton

34.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

35.

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

Carnegie, Dale

36.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

37.

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

Apocrypha

38.

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

Proverb, Arabian

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

41.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

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

Aeschylus

43.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

44.

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

Bacon, Francis

45.

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

Boseley, Sarah

46.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

47.

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

48.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

49.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

50.

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.