Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Kinkel

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

Seneca

10.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

11.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

12.

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

Archimedes

13.

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.

14.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

15.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

16.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

17.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

18.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

19.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Aeschylus

25.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

26.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

27.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

28.

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

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Weil, Simone

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

36.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

37.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

38.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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