Motivational Quotes

Power

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

2.

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

Hill, Napoleon

3.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

4.

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

Camus, Albert

5.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

6.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

7.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

9.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

10.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

11.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

12.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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

14.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

15.

Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

16.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

Seneca

19.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

20.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

21.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

23.

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

John Stuart Mill

24.

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

Lao-Tzu

25.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

26.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

29.

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

Joseph Farrell

30.

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

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

32.

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

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

35.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

36.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

37.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

38.

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

Herrich

39.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

40.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

41.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

42.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

43.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

44.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

46.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

47.

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

48.

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

Fromm, Erich

49.

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

50.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon