Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Banks, Harry F.

Best Quotes about Power

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

White, Theodore

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Seneca

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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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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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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

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo