Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Capone, Al

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

Smith, Sydney

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

Boseley, Sarah