Motivational Quotes

Power

The one who wills is the one who can.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Power

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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

Malcolm X

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Seneca

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

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

White, Theodore

15.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Boseley, Sarah

17.

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

Elie Wiesel

18.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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

20.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

23.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

24.

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

25.

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

26.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

27.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

29.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

30.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

31.

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

Tilly

32.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

35.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Hazlitt, William

37.

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

Bacon, Francis

38.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

Rand, Ayn

40.

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

Adams, John

41.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

42.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

43.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

44.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

45.

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

Bannister, Roger

46.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

47.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Lord Macaulay

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