Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Billings, Josh

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Hill, Napoleon

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Rand, Ayn

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Amy Tan

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Herrich

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

30.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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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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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

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

Smith, Sydney

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Weil, Simone

42.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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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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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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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 the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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