Motivational Quotes

Power

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

- Baltasar Gracian

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

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Einstein, Albert

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

White, Theodore

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

John Stuart Mill

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Tilly

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

31.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Bible

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Malcolm X

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lindner, Robert

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

39.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Seneca

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Cecil, Richard

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Shakespeare, William

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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

Kinkel

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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