Motivational Quotes

Power

Calmness is the cradle of power.

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Power

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

Herrich

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

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

Hamilton, Alexander

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Aeschylus

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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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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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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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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Aeschylus

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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