Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Apocrypha

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Friedman, Milton

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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

Lao-Tzu

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Bible

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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