Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Kinkel

Best Quotes about Power

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Apocrypha

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Herrich

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Weil, Simone

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

11.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Friedman, Milton

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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

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

40.

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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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 the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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

Aeschylus

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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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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Eliot, T. S.