Motivational Quotes

Power

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

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

Cecil, Richard

3.

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

Bible

4.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

5.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

6.

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

7.

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

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.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

10.

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

Archimedes

11.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

13.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

14.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

15.

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

Weil, Simone

16.

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

Billings, Josh

17.

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

Hill, Napoleon

18.

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

19.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

20.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

Camus, Albert

22.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

23.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

26.

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

Steinem, Gloria

27.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

28.

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

Rostand, Jean

29.

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

Henrik Ibsen

30.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

31.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

32.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

33.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

35.

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

Macmillan, Harold

36.

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

37.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

38.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

40.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

43.

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

Baldwin, James

44.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

45.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

46.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.