Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Power

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

Kinkel

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Capone, Al

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

Swift, Jonathan

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

11.

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Byrnes, James F.

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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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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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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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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Harry Shearer

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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

Archimedes

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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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

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

Weil, Simone

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von