Motivational Quotes

Power

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Alinsky, Saul

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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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 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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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Elie Wiesel

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hazlitt, William

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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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

41.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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.