Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Power

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

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

Archimedes

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Carnegie, Dale

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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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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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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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Seneca

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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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

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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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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.