Motivational Quotes

Power

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

- Bristol, Claude M.

Best Quotes about Power

1.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

2.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

3.

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

Bannister, Roger

4.

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

5.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

6.

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

Wordsworth, William

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

8.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

9.

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

Wieder, Marcia

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Friedman, Milton

12.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

13.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

14.

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

Cotvos

15.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

17.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

18.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

21.

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

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.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

24.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

25.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

26.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

29.

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

Aeschylus

30.

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

Boseley, Sarah

31.

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

32.

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

Cecil, Richard

33.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

34.

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

Mann, Horace

35.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

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

Hazlitt, William

37.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

38.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

39.

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

Alinsky, Saul

40.

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

Barthes, Roland

41.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

42.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

43.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

44.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

45.

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

Proverb, Arabian

46.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

47.

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

Malcolm X

48.

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

49.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

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

Harry Shearer