Motivational Quotes

Power

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Power

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

10.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

11.

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

Alinsky, Saul

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Norse

14.

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

Kinkel

15.

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

Capone, Al

16.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

17.

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

18.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

19.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

20.

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

Rand, Ayn

21.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

22.

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

Smith, Sydney

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

26.

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

27.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

28.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

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

30.

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

Carnegie, Dale

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

32.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

33.

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.

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

36.

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

Malcolm X

37.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

38.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

40.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

43.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

44.

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

Herrich

45.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

46.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

48.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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.

50.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William