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

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Seneca

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Herrich

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

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

Apocrypha

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

Malcolm X

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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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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bible

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

Swift, Jonathan

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

John Stuart Mill

25.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

26.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Bible

30.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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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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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Hooker, Richard

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Malcolm X