Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

3.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

4.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

5.

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

Mann, Horace

6.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

7.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

8.

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

9.

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

11.

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

Malcolm X

12.

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

Herrich

13.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

14.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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.

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

Proverb

20.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

21.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

22.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

23.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

24.

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

Mencken, H. L.

25.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

27.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

33.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

34.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

35.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

36.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

37.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

38.

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

39.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

40.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

41.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

42.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

43.

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

44.

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

Capone, Al

45.

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

Proverb, Spanish

46.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

47.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

48.

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

Eliot, T. S.

49.

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

Proverb, Arabian

50.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert