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

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Bacon, Francis

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

12.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

13.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

15.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

16.

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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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

18.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

19.

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

20.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

22.

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

23.

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

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

25.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

27.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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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

29.

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

Proverb, Spanish

30.

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

Steinem, Gloria

31.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

32.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

33.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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

35.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

36.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Proverb, Arabian

39.

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

Einstein, Albert

40.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

41.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

42.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

44.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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Power is the by-product of understanding.