Motivational Quotes

Power

When the will is ready the feet are light.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Power

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Wordsworth, William

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

11.

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

Seneca

12.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Weil, Simone

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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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

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

20.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

21.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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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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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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.

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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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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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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

37.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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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

46.

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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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.

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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 most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.