Motivational Quotes

Power

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Malcolm X

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Bible

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Mann, Horace

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Aeschylus

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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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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Billings, Josh

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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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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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti