Motivational Quotes

Power

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Power

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

Hooker, Richard

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

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

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

13.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Seneca

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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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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Macmillan, Harold

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Aeschylus

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Harry Shearer

36.

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

Seneca

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.