Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Power

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Tilly

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Malcolm X

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Cecil, Richard

13.

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

Amy Tan

14.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

15.

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

Kinkel

16.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

17.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

18.

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

19.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

20.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

21.

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

22.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

23.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

24.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

25.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

Wieder, Marcia

27.

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

28.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

30.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

31.

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

32.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

33.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

35.

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

36.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

37.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

38.

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

Wordsworth, William

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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

40.

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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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

42.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

44.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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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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

48.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

49.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb