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

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

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Aeschylus

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

Adams, John

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

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

10.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

11.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Bannister, Roger

15.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

16.

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

Archimedes

17.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

18.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

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

20.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

21.

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

Fuller, Thomas

22.

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

Boseley, Sarah

23.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

24.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

25.

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

26.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

27.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

28.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

30.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

32.

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

33.

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

Elie Wiesel

34.

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

35.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

36.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

37.

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

Apocrypha

38.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

39.

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

40.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

41.

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

42.

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

Rand, Ayn

43.

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

Billings, Josh

44.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

45.

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

46.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

47.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

48.

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

Bacon, Francis

49.

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.

50.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall