Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Archimedes

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

11.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

12.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

18.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

19.

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

Proverb, Norse

20.

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

Cecil, Richard

21.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

23.

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Hooker, Richard

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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

27.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

28.

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

Lord Macaulay

29.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

30.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

31.

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

Barthes, Roland

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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

33.

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

Proverb, Arabian

34.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

35.

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

Apocrypha

36.

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

Proverb, Spanish

37.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

38.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

39.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

40.

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

41.

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

Seneca

42.

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

Bible

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