Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Power

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Proverb, Norse

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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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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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

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

Malcolm X

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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

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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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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Billings, Josh

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lord Macaulay

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bannister, Roger

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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.