Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

2.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

3.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

4.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

5.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

6.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

7.

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

Seneca

8.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

9.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

10.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Einstein, Albert

13.

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

Bible

14.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

15.

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

16.

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

17.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

18.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

20.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

21.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

22.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

23.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

25.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

26.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

27.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

28.

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

Amy Tan

29.

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

Archimedes

30.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

31.

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

32.

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

Aeschylus

33.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

35.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

36.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

37.

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

38.

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

Rostand, Jean

39.

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

Henrik Ibsen

40.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

41.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

42.

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

43.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

44.

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