Motivational Quotes

Power

Man was predestined to have free will.

- Luyah, Hal

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Smith, Sydney

2.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

3.

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

Kinkel

4.

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

5.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

6.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

7.

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

Swift, Jonathan

8.

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

Fuller, Thomas

9.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

10.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

11.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

12.

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

Macmillan, Harold

13.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

14.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

17.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

18.

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

Bannister, Roger

19.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

22.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

23.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

24.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

25.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Barthes, Roland

28.

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

Bible

29.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

30.

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

Mencken, H. L.

31.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

32.

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

Proverb, Spanish

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

35.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

36.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

37.

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

Aeschylus

38.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

39.

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

Wieder, Marcia

40.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

41.

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

Seneca

42.

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

Lao-Tzu

43.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

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

Apocrypha

45.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

46.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

47.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

48.

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

49.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

50.

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