Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Power

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

Bacon, Francis

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

10.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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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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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

18.

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

19.

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

Billings, Josh

20.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

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

Baldwin, James

22.

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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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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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 attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

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

Archimedes

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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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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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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Apocrypha

39.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Capone, Al

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Elie Wiesel

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De