Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Herrich

Best Quotes about Power

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

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

Malcolm X

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

Cotvos

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

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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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Proverb, Norse

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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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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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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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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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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 sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.