Motivational Quotes

Power

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Power

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

Adams, John

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

Bible

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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

Kinkel

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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

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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 greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Billings, Josh

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

John Stuart Mill

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.