Motivational Quotes

Power

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Power

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.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

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

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

Weil, Simone

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Smith, Sydney

10.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Aeschylus

12.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Fuller, Thomas

15.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

17.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

20.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

21.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

27.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Billings, Josh

29.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

38.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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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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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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