Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Joseph Farrell

Best Quotes about Power

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Boseley, Sarah

10.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

11.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

12.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

13.

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

Swift, Jonathan

14.

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

Seneca

15.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

16.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

17.

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

Friedman, Milton

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

20.

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

Aeschylus

21.

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

Macmillan, Harold

22.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

23.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

24.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

25.

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.

26.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

Proverb, Norse

29.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

30.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

31.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

32.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

33.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

34.

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

Bible

35.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

Malcolm X

37.

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

Hooker, Richard

38.

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

39.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

Smith, Sydney

42.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

43.

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

44.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

45.

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

Bannister, Roger

46.

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.

47.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

48.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

49.

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

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo