Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Cotvos

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Billings, Josh

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Bible

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Wieder, Marcia

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Smith, Sydney

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Seneca

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Malcolm X

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Apocrypha

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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