Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Harry Shearer

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

11.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

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

Malcolm X

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

Alinsky, Saul

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Apocrypha

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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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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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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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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

Macmillan, Harold

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Seneca

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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

Mann, Horace

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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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

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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

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.