Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Billings, Josh

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

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Mann, Horace

11.

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

Henrik Ibsen

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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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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

16.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Malcolm X

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

30.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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

Proverb

34.

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

John Stuart Mill

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Bible

48.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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