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

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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

Malcolm X

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Byrnes, James F.

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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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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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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

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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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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

Kinkel

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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.

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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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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

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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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

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

37.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Shakespeare, William

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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

Bannister, Roger

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

Alinsky, Saul