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

Baltasar Gracian

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Hazlitt, William

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Capone, Al

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

Malcolm X

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Kinkel

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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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

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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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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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