Motivational Quotes

Power

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Power

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mann, Horace

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Thatcher, Margaret

10.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

11.

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

12.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

13.

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

Boseley, Sarah

14.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

15.

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

Cotvos

16.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

20.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

21.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

22.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

23.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

24.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

25.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

26.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

27.

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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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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Hazlitt, William

32.

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

Hooker, Richard

33.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

34.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

35.

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

Malcolm X

36.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

38.

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

Fromm, Erich

39.

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

40.

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 great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

42.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

44.

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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

46.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

49.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

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