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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
Power Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Power

1.
Our power is in our ability to decide.
Fuller, Buckminster

2.
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
Stevenson, Adlai E.

3.
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
Weil, Simone

4.
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
Cecil, Richard

5.
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

6.
If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
Boseley, Sarah

7.
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Rostand, Jean

8.
Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
Marden, Orison Swett

9.
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield

10.
Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
Phillips, Wendell

11.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer

12.
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

13.
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
Steffens, Lincoln

14.
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
Aeschylus

15.
The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
Johnson, Lyndon B.

16.
The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
Smith, Sydney

18.
A word after a word after a word is power.
Atwood, Margaret

19.
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

20.
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.
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.

22.
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Baltasar Gracian

23.
Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
Hill, Napoleon

24.
I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.
Kazantzakis, Nikos

25.
If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.
Proverb, Arabian

26.
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
Seneca

27.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

28.
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Thatcher, Margaret

29.
Let them hate, so long as they fear.
Accius

30.
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Lord Macaulay

31.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Shaw, George Bernard

32.
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.
Hoffer, Eric

34.
Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.
Shakespeare, William

35.
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

36.
When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.
Aeschylus

37.
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
Gandhi, Mahatma

39.
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.

40.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman

41.
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

42.
The look of a king is itself a deed.
Paul, Jean

43.
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

44.
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
Amiel, Henri Frederic

45.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Hendrix, Jimi

46.
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of
Vidal, Gore

47.
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Russell, Bertrand

48.
He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
Lao-Tzu

49.
Man has will, but woman has her way.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

50.
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
Proverb, Chinese


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