Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Best Quotes about Power

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

Rostand, Jean

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wieder, Marcia

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Bible

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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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

18.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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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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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 will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Seneca

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Kinkel

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

Steinem, Gloria

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis