Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Power

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.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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

Steffens, Lincoln

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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

12.

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

Kinkel

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Camus, Albert

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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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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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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Malcolm X

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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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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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

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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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

33.

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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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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