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

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Bible

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Mann, Horace

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

Swift, Jonathan

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Friedman, Milton

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Hooker, Richard

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry