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

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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 price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Friedman, Milton

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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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Proverb

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Capone, Al

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

White, Theodore

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

Fuller, Thomas

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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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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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Barthes, Roland

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.