Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Power

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Malcolm X

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

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.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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

11.

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

Henrik Ibsen

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

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

Lord Macaulay

15.

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

Bible

16.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

17.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Kinkel

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

24.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

25.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

26.

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

Proverb, Spanish

27.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

28.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

29.

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

30.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

32.

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

Rand, Ayn

33.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Cecil, Richard

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William