Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Power

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Malcolm X

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

Fuller, Thomas

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

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

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

10.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

12.

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

Bannister, Roger

13.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

14.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

15.

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.

16.

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

Fuller, Thomas

17.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

18.

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

Lord Macaulay

19.

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

20.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

21.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

22.

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

23.

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

24.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

26.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

27.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

28.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

29.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

30.

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

Proverb, Arabian

31.

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

32.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

33.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

34.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

35.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

36.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

37.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

38.

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

Aeschylus

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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.