Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wordsworth, William

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

Fromm, Erich

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Aeschylus

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

Shakespeare, William

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cotvos

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Seneca

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Weil, Simone

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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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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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Cecil, Richard

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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