Motivational Quotes

Power

In oratory the will must predominate.

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Power

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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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

11.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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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 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 point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Proverb, Norse

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Aeschylus

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

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

Mann, Horace

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Archimedes

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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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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Apocrypha

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

Shakespeare, William

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Bible

37.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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

41.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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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

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.