Motivational Quotes

Power

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

- Joseph Farrell

Best Quotes about Power

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

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

Malcolm X

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

11.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

12.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Alinsky, Saul

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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

Kinkel

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Seneca

21.

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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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Banks, Harry F.

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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

Swift, Jonathan

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

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

Archimedes

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

50.

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