Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Power

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Kinkel

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Boseley, Sarah

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Joseph Farrell

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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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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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power tires only those who do not have it.