Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Capone, Al

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

Adams, John

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Billings, Josh

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Malcolm X

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

Kinkel

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

Fuller, Thomas

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Lao-Tzu

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Aeschylus

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