Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

10.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

11.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

12.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

13.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

14.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

15.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

16.

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

Elie Wiesel

17.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

18.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

19.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

20.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

21.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

23.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

24.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

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

Amy Tan

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

30.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

31.

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

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

33.

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

Fuller, Thomas

34.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Hazlitt, William

36.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

37.

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

John Stuart Mill

38.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

39.

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

Bannister, Roger

40.

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