Motivational Quotes

Power

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Power

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

11.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

13.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

14.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

15.

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

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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

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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

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Russell, Bertrand

21.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Bannister, Roger

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Fuller, Thomas

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

Boseley, Sarah

34.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.