Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Cecil, Richard

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

2.

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

Wieder, Marcia

3.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

4.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

5.

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

Joseph Farrell

6.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

7.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

8.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

9.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Mencken, H. L.

13.

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.

14.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

Hazlitt, William

17.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

18.

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

19.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

20.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

21.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

22.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

23.

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

24.

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

Steinem, Gloria

25.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

26.

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

Bannister, Roger

27.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

28.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

30.

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

31.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

32.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

33.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

34.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

35.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

36.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Elie Wiesel

39.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

40.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

41.

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

42.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

43.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

44.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

45.

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

Smith, Sydney

46.

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

47.

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

Archimedes

48.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

49.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

50.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.