Motivational Quotes

Power

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Power

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Malcolm X

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Fuller, Thomas

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

10.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Joseph Farrell

12.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

13.

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

14.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

16.

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

Bacon, Francis

17.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

18.

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

19.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

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

Bannister, Roger

21.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

22.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

26.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

27.

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.

28.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

29.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

30.

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

31.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

35.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

36.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

37.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

38.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

42.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

43.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

44.

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

45.

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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.