Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

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

Proverb, Arabian

3.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

4.

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

Bible

5.

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

6.

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

7.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

8.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

9.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

10.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

11.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

12.

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

13.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

15.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

16.

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.

17.

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

Bacon, Francis

18.

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

Boseley, Sarah

19.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

20.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

23.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

24.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

25.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

26.

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

27.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

31.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

32.

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

Rand, Ayn

33.

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

Malcolm X

34.

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

Lord Macaulay

35.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

36.

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

Aeschylus

37.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

38.

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

39.

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

40.

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

Billings, Josh

41.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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.

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

Joseph Farrell

44.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

45.

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.

46.

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