Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Weil, Simone

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

12.

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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Covey, Stephen R.

14.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

16.

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

Bannister, Roger

17.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

18.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

19.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

20.

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

Mann, Horace

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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

22.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

25.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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

Herrich

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Apocrypha

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

33.

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

Aeschylus

34.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Friedman, Milton

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

37.

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

38.

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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

43.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

45.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.