Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Best Quotes about Power

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

Hooker, Richard

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Proverb

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

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Seneca

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Hazlitt, William

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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

Bible

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

Baldwin, James

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

Malcolm X

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Apocrypha

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.