Motivational Quotes

Power

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

- Bible

Best Quotes about Power

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Malcolm X

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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

Seneca

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

10.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

11.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

12.

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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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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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

16.

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

Bible

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

18.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

21.

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

Proverb, Norse

22.

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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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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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

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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

Carnegie, Andrew

28.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

35.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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

40.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Aeschylus

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

43.

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Malcolm X

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David