Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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 never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mann, Horace

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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

11.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Proverb, Norse

19.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

28.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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, 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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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

Hooker, Richard

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