Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

2.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

3.

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

Bible

4.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

5.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

6.

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

Elie Wiesel

7.

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

8.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

9.

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

Boseley, Sarah

10.

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

11.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

12.

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

13.

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

14.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

15.

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

16.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

18.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

20.

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

Bannister, Roger

21.

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

Fuller, Thomas

22.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

25.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

26.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

27.

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

28.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

29.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

30.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

31.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

32.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

34.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

35.

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

36.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

37.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

38.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

39.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

40.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

41.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

42.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

43.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

44.

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

Friedman, Milton

45.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

46.

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

47.

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

Weil, Simone

48.

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

49.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

50.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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