Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Power

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Bible

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

Lao-Tzu

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Seneca

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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