Motivational Quotes

Power

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Power

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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

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

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

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

10.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

11.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Seneca

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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

Seneca

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

Wieder, Marcia

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

White, Theodore

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Kinkel

42.

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

43.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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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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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.