Motivational Quotes

Power

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

- Propertius, Sextus

Best Quotes about Power

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

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Tilly

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Weil, Simone

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

10.

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Bible

19.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

Wieder, Marcia

23.

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

Seneca

25.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

30.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

33.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

34.

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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Fromm, Erich

37.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

38.

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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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

40.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

41.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

42.

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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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

44.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Thatcher, Margaret