Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about 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.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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

Macmillan, Harold

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Smith, Sydney

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

10.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

11.

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

Weil, Simone

12.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

13.

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

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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

Aeschylus

15.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

16.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

18.

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

19.

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

Elie Wiesel

20.

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

Fromm, Erich

21.

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

Hazlitt, William

22.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

23.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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

25.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

28.

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

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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

Bannister, Roger

30.

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

White, Theodore

31.

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

Woodrow Wilson

32.

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

33.

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

Bible

34.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

35.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

36.

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