Motivational Quotes

Power

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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.

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.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Malcolm X

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 we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Hazlitt, William

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Aeschylus

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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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 look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Archimedes

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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

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

Mann, Horace

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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 over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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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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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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

Proverb, Norse

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Seneca

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

Baltasar Gracian