Motivational Quotes

Power

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

- Joseph Farrell

Best Quotes about Power

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Cecil, Richard

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bible

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Amy Tan

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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 is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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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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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.