Motivational Quotes

Power

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Fromm, Erich

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Shakespeare, William

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Cecil, Richard

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Malcolm X

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Bevan, Aneurin