Motivational Quotes

Power

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

- Kazantzakis, Nikos

Best Quotes about Power

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Rand, Ayn

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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 has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

Proverb, Spanish

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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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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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Mann, Horace

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Seneca

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Seneca

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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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

46.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.