Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Dr. Thomas Fuller

Best Quotes about Power

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Bible

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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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

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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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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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

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Aeschylus

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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 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

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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