Motivational Quotes

Power

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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

Cotvos

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Hamilton, Alexander

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

10.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

11.

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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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Malcolm X

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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.

15.

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 look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Capone, Al

19.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

20.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

21.

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

Bannister, Roger

22.

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

Bible

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

24.

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

25.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

26.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

27.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

28.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Joseph Farrell

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

Shakespeare, William

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

34.

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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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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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

40.

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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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 get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

44.

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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.