Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hamilton, Alexander

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

2.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

3.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

4.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

5.

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

Baltasar Gracian

6.

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

Weil, Simone

7.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

8.

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

9.

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

Boseley, Sarah

10.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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.

14.

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

Malcolm X

15.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

17.

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

Cotvos

18.

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

Camus, Albert

19.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

21.

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

Kinkel

22.

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.

23.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

27.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

28.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

29.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

31.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

32.

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

33.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

35.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

36.

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

37.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

38.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

39.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.