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

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

Herrich

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

Carnegie, Andrew

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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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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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

17.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Malcolm X

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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 consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Seneca

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Malcolm X

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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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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