Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Hamilton, Alexander

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Baldwin, James

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

White, Theodore

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Apocrypha

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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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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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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

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bible

17.

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 exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

23.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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

Proverb, Norse

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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

Smith, Sydney

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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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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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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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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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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von