Motivational Quotes

Power

He has the power who the majority believe in.

- Raupach

Best Quotes about Power

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

Hazlitt, William

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Fuller, Thomas

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

10.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

11.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

13.

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

Bible

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

16.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

17.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

19.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

20.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

21.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

22.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Henrik Ibsen

25.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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.

28.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

29.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

30.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

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

White, Theodore

32.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

34.

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

Wieder, Marcia

35.

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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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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

Archimedes

38.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

39.

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

Banks, Harry F.

40.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

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

Rand, Ayn

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb, Spanish