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

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

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

Byrnes, James F.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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

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

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

Capone, Al

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

Apocrypha

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

10.

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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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

12.

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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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

14.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

15.

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

Proverb, Norse

16.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

17.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

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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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Alinsky, Saul

24.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

25.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

26.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

27.

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

Cotvos

28.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

29.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

30.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

31.

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

32.

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

Herrich

33.

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

Amy Tan

34.

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

35.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

36.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

37.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

38.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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.