Motivational Quotes

Power

Man was predestined to have free will.

- Luyah, Hal

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

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.

11.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

Cecil, Richard

13.

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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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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

Apocrypha

18.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

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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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

John Stuart Mill

24.

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

Herrich

25.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

27.

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

Wieder, Marcia

28.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

30.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

35.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

40.

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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

43.

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

Amy Tan

44.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

45.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

47.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.