Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Power

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Wieder, Marcia

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

Billings, Josh

10.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

11.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

13.

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

14.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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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

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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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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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

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

29.

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Seneca

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Proverb, Norse

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

43.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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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

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall