Motivational Quotes

Power

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

- Proverb, Norse

Best Quotes about Power

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Bible

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

Aeschylus

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Seneca

10.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

11.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

Seneca

13.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

14.

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.

15.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

16.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

22.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

23.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

24.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

25.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

27.

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

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

Aeschylus

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.

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

Wieder, Marcia

31.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

32.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

33.

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

Lao-Tzu

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

36.

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

Steinem, Gloria

37.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

38.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

39.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

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.

41.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

42.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

43.

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

Mann, Horace

44.

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

Rand, Ayn

45.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

46.

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

Seneca

47.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

48.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

49.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

50.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von