Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

3.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

4.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

5.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

6.

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.

7.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

8.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

9.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

10.

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

11.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

12.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

14.

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

15.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

16.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

17.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

18.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

19.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

20.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

21.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

22.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

23.

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

Smith, Sydney

24.

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

Adams, John

25.

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

Proverb, Arabian

26.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

27.

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

John Stuart Mill

28.

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

29.

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

Alinsky, Saul

30.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

31.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

32.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

33.

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

Camus, Albert

34.

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

Hill, Napoleon

35.

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

Russell, Bertrand

36.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

Lord Macaulay

38.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

39.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

40.

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

41.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

42.

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

43.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

44.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

45.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

46.

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

Capone, Al

47.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

48.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

49.

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

Steinem, Gloria

50.

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