Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Malcolm X

2.

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

Billings, Josh

3.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

4.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

5.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

6.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

7.

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

8.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

9.

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

10.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

12.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

13.

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

14.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

15.

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

Aeschylus

16.

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

Lord Macaulay

17.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

18.

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

Boseley, Sarah

19.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

20.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

21.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

22.

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

Camus, Albert

23.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

24.

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

Friedman, Milton

25.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

27.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

29.

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

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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

31.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

32.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

33.

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

Harry Shearer

34.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

35.

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

36.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

37.

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

Rostand, Jean

38.

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

39.

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

Smith, Sydney

40.

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

Bible

41.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

42.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

43.

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

Baltasar Gracian

44.

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

45.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

46.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

47.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

48.

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

John Stuart Mill

49.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

50.

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