Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Wieder, Marcia

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

John Stuart Mill

2.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

3.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

4.

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

Malcolm X

5.

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

6.

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

Friedman, Milton

7.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

8.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

9.

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

Joseph Farrell

10.

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

Lao-Tzu

11.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

16.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

17.

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

18.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

20.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

21.

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

Capone, Al

22.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

23.

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

Herrich

24.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

26.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

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

Billings, Josh

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

30.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

31.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

35.

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

Bannister, Roger

36.

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

Proverb

37.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

38.

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

White, Theodore

39.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

40.

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

Wordsworth, William

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

43.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

44.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

45.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

46.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

47.

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

Malcolm X

48.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

49.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

50.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin