Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Power

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Lao-Tzu

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Baltasar Gracian

11.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

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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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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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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

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

Seneca

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Apocrypha

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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

Malcolm X

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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 is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius