Motivational Quotes

Power

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Joseph Farrell

2.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

3.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

4.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

5.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

6.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

7.

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

8.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

9.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

12.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

Wieder, Marcia

19.

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

20.

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

21.

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

22.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

23.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

24.

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

Henrik Ibsen

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

26.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

27.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

28.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

29.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

30.

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

32.

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

33.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

34.

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

35.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

36.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

37.

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

Carnegie, Dale

38.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

39.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

40.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

42.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

43.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

45.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

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

47.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

48.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

49.

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

Harry Shearer

50.

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