Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Kazantzakis, Nikos

Best Quotes about Power

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

Mann, Horace

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

Einstein, Albert

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kinkel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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 gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Amy Tan

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Malcolm X

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

Billings, Josh

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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? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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 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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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