Motivational Quotes

Power

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hamilton, Alexander

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Malcolm X

10.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Shakespeare, William

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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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

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Bible

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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

25.

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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

28.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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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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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Fromm, Erich

33.

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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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Billings, Josh

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aeschylus

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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