Motivational Quotes

Power

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

- Guin, Ursula K. Le

Best Quotes about Power

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

2.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

3.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

4.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

5.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

6.

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

Joseph Farrell

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

Byrnes, James F.

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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

9.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

11.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

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.

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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

15.

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

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

17.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

18.

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

Rand, Ayn

19.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

20.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

21.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

22.

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

Steinem, Gloria

23.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

24.

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

Tilly

25.

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

Proverb, Arabian

26.

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

Carnegie, Dale

27.

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

28.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

29.

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

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Smith, Sydney

32.

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.

33.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

34.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

35.

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

Amy Tan

36.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

37.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

38.

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

Seneca

39.

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

Henrik Ibsen

40.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

41.

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

42.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

43.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

44.

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

45.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

46.

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

Cecil, Richard

47.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

48.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.