Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Power

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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

Bible

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Smith, Sydney

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Seneca

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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

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Rand, Ayn

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

43.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?