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

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

Hendrix, Jimi

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Bannister, Roger

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Smith, Sydney

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

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Barthes, Roland

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb, Norse

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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

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

Amy Tan

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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 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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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

42.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Harry Shearer

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.