Motivational Quotes

Power

The greatest power is often simple patience.

- Cossman, E. Joseph

Best Quotes about Power

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Herrich

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Elie Wiesel

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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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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

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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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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Lord Macaulay

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fuller, Thomas

26.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Banks, Harry F.

30.

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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Aeschylus

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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

34.

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

Harry Shearer

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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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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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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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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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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Man has will, but woman has her way.