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

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

Proverb

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

Kohe, J. Martin

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

10.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

11.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

12.

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

Banks, Harry F.

13.

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

Mann, Horace

14.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

White, Theodore

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Hooker, Richard

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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 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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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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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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

27.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

28.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

34.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

38.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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

Hazlitt, William

42.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

45.

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

Cotvos

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Kinkel

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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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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William