Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hooker, Richard

Best Quotes about Power

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Amy Tan

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

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

Malcolm X

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Harry Shearer

21.

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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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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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

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Lindner, Robert

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

36.

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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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Mann, Horace

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