Motivational Quotes

Power

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

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

Herrich

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Smith, Sydney

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Archimedes

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Seneca

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Apocrypha

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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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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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Banks, Harry F.

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Adams, John

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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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

43.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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