Motivational Quotes

Power

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

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

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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

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

Joseph Farrell

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.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

11.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Hooker, Richard

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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

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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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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Seneca

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Bible

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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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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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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

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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