Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- White, Theodore

Best Quotes about Power

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Byrnes, James F.

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

Lao-Tzu

10.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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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

13.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Apocrypha

18.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Malcolm X

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Hill, Napoleon

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hooker, Richard

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

43.

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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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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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Cecil, Richard

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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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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Friedman, Milton