Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Power

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

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

Malcolm X

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Kinkel

10.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

12.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Aeschylus

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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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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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

Mann, Horace

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

Hazlitt, William

30.

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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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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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Cotvos

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.