Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Amy Tan

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

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

Malcolm X

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Wieder, Marcia

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

Adams, John

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

10.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

12.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

13.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

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.

15.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

16.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

17.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

18.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

19.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

20.

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.

21.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

22.

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

John Stuart Mill

23.

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

Archimedes

24.

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

Friedman, Milton

25.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

27.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

30.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

31.

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

32.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

33.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

34.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

35.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

36.

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

Aeschylus

37.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

38.

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

Billings, Josh

39.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

40.

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

Bannister, Roger

41.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

42.

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

43.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

44.

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

Elie Wiesel

45.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

47.

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

48.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

49.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

50.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri