Motivational Quotes

Power

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Power

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

Einstein, Albert

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

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

Wieder, Marcia

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Cotvos

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Baltasar Gracian

10.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

11.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

12.

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

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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 look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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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 price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Henrik Ibsen

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Aeschylus

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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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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

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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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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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Proverb, Norse

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bible