Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Power

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Proverb

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

White, Theodore

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

11.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

12.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, 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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

19.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Harry Shearer

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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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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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Bible

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Bible

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Henrik Ibsen

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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.