Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Macarthur, Douglas

Best Quotes about Power

1.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

2.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

3.

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

Malcolm X

4.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

5.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

6.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

7.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

8.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

9.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

10.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

11.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

12.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

13.

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

Tilly

14.

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

Seneca

15.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

17.

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

Lindner, Robert

18.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

19.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

20.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

21.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

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

Aeschylus

23.

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

Elie Wiesel

24.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

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

Apocrypha

26.

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

Hill, Napoleon

27.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

28.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

29.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

30.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

31.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

33.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

34.

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

Lao-Tzu

35.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

36.

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

Joseph Farrell

37.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

38.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

39.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

40.

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

41.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

42.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

43.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

44.

The look of a king is itself a deed.