Motivational Quotes

Power

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

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Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

2.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

3.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

4.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

5.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

6.

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

7.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

8.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

9.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

10.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

11.

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

12.

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

Wieder, Marcia

13.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

14.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

15.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

16.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

19.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

20.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

21.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

22.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

23.

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

Archimedes

24.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

25.

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

Capone, Al

26.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

27.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

28.

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

29.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

30.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

33.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

34.

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

35.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

36.

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

Proverb, Arabian

37.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

38.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

40.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

41.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

Elie Wiesel

43.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

45.

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

Billings, Josh

46.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

47.

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

Joseph Farrell

48.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

49.

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

50.

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

Hill, Napoleon