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

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

Friedman, Milton

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Seneca

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Seneca

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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Kinkel

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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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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Apocrypha

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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

48.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]