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

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Shakespeare, William

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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

Malcolm X

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Henrik Ibsen

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Aeschylus

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

Lao-Tzu

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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.

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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

37.

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

Harry Shearer

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Kinkel

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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

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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.

43.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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