Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

1.

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

Fuller, Thomas

2.

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

Cecil, Richard

3.

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

4.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

5.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

6.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

7.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

8.

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

Bannister, Roger

9.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Friedman, Milton

11.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

16.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

17.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

18.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

19.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

20.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

21.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

22.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

23.

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

24.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

25.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

26.

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

27.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Fromm, Erich

29.

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

Seneca

30.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

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

Amy Tan

34.

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

Tilly

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

37.

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

Kinkel

38.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

39.

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

White, Theodore

40.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

41.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

42.

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

43.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

44.

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

Henrik Ibsen

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

47.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

48.

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

Fuller, Thomas

49.

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

50.

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

Malcolm X