Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Lord Macaulay

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Tilly

10.

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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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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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Henrik Ibsen

17.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Apocrypha

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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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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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

45.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Billings, Josh

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

Weil, Simone