Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Power

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

Russell, Bertrand

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Bannister, Roger

10.

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

Lao-Tzu

11.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

12.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

13.

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

Carnegie, Dale

14.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

18.

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

Einstein, Albert

19.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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

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

Rostand, Jean

26.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

27.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

28.

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

Bacon, Francis

29.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

30.

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

Billings, Josh

31.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Malcolm X

34.

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

Hooker, Richard

35.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

37.

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

38.

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

Mann, Horace

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

40.

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

Hill, Napoleon

41.

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

Baltasar Gracian

42.

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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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

48.

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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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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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich