Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Malcolm X

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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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 is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bible

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bible

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

Friedman, Milton

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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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