Motivational Quotes

Power

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Power

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

Herrich

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Apocrypha

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Harry Shearer

11.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

14.

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

Tilly

15.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

16.

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

Eliot, T. S.

17.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

18.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

19.

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

20.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

21.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

22.

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

Baltasar Gracian

23.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

25.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

26.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

27.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

28.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

29.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

30.

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

Proverb

31.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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.

37.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Smith, Sydney

40.

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

41.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

42.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

43.

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

Steinem, Gloria

44.

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