Motivational Quotes

Power

The will of man is his happiness.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

11.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

13.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

14.

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

Elie Wiesel

15.

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

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

Steffens, Lincoln

17.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

21.

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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Tilly

24.

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.

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

Bible

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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

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

28.

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

Henrik Ibsen

29.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

30.

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

Proverb, Norse

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

32.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

40.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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 power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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