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

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Capone, Al

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

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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

Seneca

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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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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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Hooker, Richard

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Lao-Tzu

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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.

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Apocrypha

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

Hill, Napoleon

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Malcolm X

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Harry Shearer

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin