Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- John Stuart Mill

Best Quotes about Power

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Banks, Harry F.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

10.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

11.

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

Cotvos

12.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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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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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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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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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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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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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Boseley, Sarah

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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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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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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Seneca

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Kinkel

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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

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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