Motivational Quotes

Power

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Kinkel

2.

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

Camus, Albert

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

6.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

7.

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

8.

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

White, Theodore

9.

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

Seneca

10.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Macmillan, Harold

13.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

Hazlitt, William

15.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

16.

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.

17.

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

Joseph Farrell

18.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

20.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

24.

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

Proverb, Norse

25.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

27.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

28.

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.

29.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

30.

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

33.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

35.

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

John Stuart Mill

36.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

37.

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

38.

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

39.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

40.

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

41.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

42.

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

Baldwin, James

43.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

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

Malcolm X

45.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

47.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

49.

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

Fromm, Erich

50.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton