Motivational Quotes

Power

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

2.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Hill, Napoleon

6.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

7.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

9.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

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

Aeschylus

11.

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

Lao-Tzu

12.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

13.

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

14.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

15.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

16.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

17.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

18.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

19.

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

John Stuart Mill

20.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

21.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

22.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

23.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

24.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

25.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

27.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

28.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

29.

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

Weil, Simone

30.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

31.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

32.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

33.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

34.

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

Bible

35.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

36.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

37.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

38.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

39.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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.

44.

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

Adams, John

45.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

46.

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

47.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

49.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

50.

When the will is ready the feet are light.