Motivational Quotes

Power

Will it, and set to work briskly.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Malcolm X

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

White, Theodore

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Malcolm X

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Baldwin, James

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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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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Fromm, Erich

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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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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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Mann, Horace

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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bible

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Banks, Harry F.