Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Power

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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

Peter, Laurence J.

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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

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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Mann, Horace

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Malcolm X

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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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