Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is the by-product of understanding.

- Bronowski, Jacob

Best Quotes about Power

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Weil, Simone

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Alinsky, Saul

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

10.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Proverb, Norse

23.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Archimedes

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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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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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

Amy Tan

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

Bible

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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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

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lord Macaulay

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney