Motivational Quotes

Power

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Banks, Harry F.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aeschylus

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

10.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

11.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

13.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

14.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

15.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

16.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

17.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

18.

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

19.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

20.

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

Fromm, Erich

21.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

22.

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

23.

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

Boseley, Sarah

24.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

25.

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

26.

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

Lao-Tzu

27.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

28.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Lindner, Robert

31.

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

32.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

33.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

Carnegie, Dale

35.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

36.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

39.

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

Weil, Simone

40.

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

41.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

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

Lord Macaulay

43.

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

44.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

45.

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

46.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

47.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

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

Proverb, Arabian

49.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.