Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Mencken, H. L.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Billings, Josh

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

10.

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

11.

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

Steinem, Gloria

12.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

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

14.

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

White, Theodore

15.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

16.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

17.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

18.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

19.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

20.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

22.

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

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

25.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

26.

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

Elie Wiesel

27.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

28.

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

Amy Tan

29.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

31.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

33.

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

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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

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

36.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.