Motivational Quotes

Power

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

2.

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

Lindner, Robert

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Seneca

6.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

7.

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

White, Theodore

8.

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

Malcolm X

9.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

10.

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.

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

Kinkel

14.

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

Amy Tan

15.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

16.

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

Steinem, Gloria

17.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

19.

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

Seneca

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

23.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

24.

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

25.

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

Bannister, Roger

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

28.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

32.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

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

Lao-Tzu

34.

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

Aeschylus

35.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

36.

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

Joseph Farrell

37.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

38.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

39.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

40.

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

Bible

41.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

43.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

44.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

47.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

48.

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

Proverb, Spanish

49.

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

50.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon