Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Rand, Ayn

Best Quotes about Power

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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

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

Mann, Horace

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Elie Wiesel

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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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

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

Hooker, Richard

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Harry Shearer

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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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 creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Archimedes

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Steinem, Gloria

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.