Quotes about power

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In oratory the will must predominate.

— David Hare

Man has will, but woman has her way.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

— Richard Hooker

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

— Victor Hugo

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Robert Lindner

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

— Vince Lombardi

Man was predestined to have free will.

— Hal Luyah

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

— Douglas Macarthur

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Will is character in action.

— William Mcdougall

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

— Addison Mizner

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

— Ovid

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.

— George S. Patton

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

— Sextus Propertius

When the will is ready the feet are light.

— Proverb

Who wills the end, wills the means.

— Proverb

The one who wills is the one who can.

— Proverb

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

— Chinese Proverb

Where there's a will, there's a way.

— English Proverb

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

— Norse Proverb

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

— Yiddish Proverb

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

The will of man is his happiness.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Will it, and set to work briskly.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Seneca

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

— William Shakespeare

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

— William Shakespeare

Will and intellect are one and the same.

— Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

— Jimi Hendrix

All for one and one for one, our government has strayed.

— James Dye

Nearly all men can stand adversity. If you want to test a man's character, give him power.

— Abraham Lincoln

The power trust is nothing more than a select group of dictators, with the same goals and objectives - but unlike the brutal dictators we study in history - this select group prefers to operate in the dark, behind banks, governments, politicians, companies, and so forth.

— John Rocco Savalli

the kindest human of them all is GOD and the most powerful of them all

— BPBEE

Remember that even if all the world’s journalists and critics unite together to criticize you, they cannot harm you. O Eternal Atman! Remain established in your True Self.

— H.H. Asaramji Bapu

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvellous 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

— William George Jordan

I recreate myself; that is my only power.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Vandals listen only when others are stronger. If vandals are equal or stronger, their word is the last word.

— Dejan Stojanovic

When he is most powerful, nothing does he become.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Pretense cannot sustain blind power.

— Dejan Stojanovic

What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.

— Aristotle

The words spoken from a selfless soul are the sole flawless powers to empower the world.

— Anuj Somany

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

— Robert Frost

A friend in power is a friend lost.

— Henry Brooks Adams

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.

— Olive Schreiner

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.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making any dream come true. I can't often means I won't. You can change I won't to I will, with willpower.

— Marcia Wieder