Motivational Quotes

Power

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

- Dass, Ram

Best Quotes about Power

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

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Billings, Josh

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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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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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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

Mann, Horace

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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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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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

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.