Motivational Quotes

Power

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Best Quotes about Power

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

Archimedes

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Herrich

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

Malcolm X

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Malcolm X

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

Bible

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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

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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

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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

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

Amy Tan

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Seneca

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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.

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

Kinkel

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

Seneca

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Man has will, but woman has her way.