Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

2.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

3.

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

4.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

5.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

6.

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

Joseph Farrell

7.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

8.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

9.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

10.

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

11.

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

Billings, Josh

12.

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

13.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

14.

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

Fuller, Thomas

15.

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

Adams, John

16.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

17.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

18.

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

Alinsky, Saul

19.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

20.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

24.

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

25.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

26.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

27.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

28.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

29.

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

Malcolm X

30.

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

Amy Tan

31.

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.

32.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

33.

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

34.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

35.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

36.

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

Archimedes

37.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

38.

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

Camus, Albert

39.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

40.

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

Apocrypha

41.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

42.

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

43.

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

Rostand, Jean

44.

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

45.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

47.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

48.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

Fuller, Thomas

50.

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