Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Power

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Amy Tan

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

10.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

11.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Apocrypha

13.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

14.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

16.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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

Baltasar Gracian

18.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Swift, Jonathan

21.

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

Friedman, Milton

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Fromm, Erich

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Rostand, Jean

29.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

31.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Proverb, Spanish

33.

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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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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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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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

41.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

42.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.