Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Herrich

Best Quotes about Power

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Aeschylus

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

Bacon, Francis

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.

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

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

10.

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

Capone, Al

11.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

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

Hazlitt, William

14.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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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

18.

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

Proverb

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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.

20.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

21.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Apocrypha

26.

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

27.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

28.

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Malcolm X

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Mann, Horace

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Alinsky, Saul

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Fuller, Thomas

43.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

44.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.