Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

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

Wordsworth, William

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Apocrypha

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

Lao-Tzu

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

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Proverb, Norse

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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

Bannister, Roger

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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

Smith, Sydney

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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

Bible

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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