Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Billings, Josh

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Proverb

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Bible

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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 is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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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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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.