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

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

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

Bannister, Roger

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Smith, Sydney

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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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

12.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Seneca

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Billings, Josh

18.

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's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

30.

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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

41.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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

43.

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

Rand, Ayn

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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.