Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Seneca

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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

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

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

10.

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

Russell, Bertrand

11.

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

Cotvos

12.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

13.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

16.

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

Proverb, Norse

17.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

19.

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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

Billings, Josh

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

Boseley, Sarah

25.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Malcolm X

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shakespeare, William

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Bible

33.

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

Henrik Ibsen

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

39.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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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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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

John Stuart Mill

48.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

49.

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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.