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

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Fromm, Erich

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

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Mann, Horace

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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 look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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 greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Seneca

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Aeschylus

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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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

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.