Motivational Quotes

Power

When the will is ready the feet are light.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Power

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

Bible

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Seneca

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Aeschylus

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

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

10.

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

11.

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

Malcolm X

12.

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

Alinsky, Saul

13.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

14.

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

Wordsworth, William

15.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

16.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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

Henrik Ibsen

19.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

20.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

21.

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

22.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

23.

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

24.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

25.

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

Lao-Tzu

26.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

27.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

28.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

30.

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

Billings, Josh

31.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

33.

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

34.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

35.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

36.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

38.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

40.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

41.

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

Einstein, Albert

42.

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

Banks, Harry F.

43.

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

Steinem, Gloria

44.

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

Bannister, Roger

45.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

46.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

47.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

48.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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