Motivational Quotes

Power

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Power

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

Kinkel

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Henrik Ibsen

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

10.

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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hooker, Richard

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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

Macmillan, Harold

23.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

24.

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

Rand, Ayn

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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

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

Seneca

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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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

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

35.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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.

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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 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