Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Baltasar Gracian

Best Quotes about Power

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Seneca

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Proverb

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

Friedman, Milton

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Malcolm X

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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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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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

31.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Billings, Josh

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Amy Tan

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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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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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

John Stuart Mill