Motivational Quotes

Power

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Power

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

13.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

15.

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

16.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

17.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

18.

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

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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

20.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

21.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

White, Theodore

27.

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

Rand, Ayn

28.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

29.

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

30.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

31.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

33.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

34.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

35.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

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

Aeschylus

37.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

40.

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

Proverb, Arabian

41.

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

Proverb

42.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

43.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

44.

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

45.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

46.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

48.

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

Friedman, Milton

49.

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

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

Boseley, Sarah