Motivational Quotes

Power

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Proverb, Spanish

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Shakespeare, William

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Malcolm X

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Malcolm X

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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