Motivational Quotes

Power

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

- Bannister, Roger

Best Quotes about Power

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Bible

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

18.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Weil, Simone

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

Hooker, Richard

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

25.

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

26.

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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Archimedes

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

Hazlitt, William

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

40.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.