Motivational Quotes

Power

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Power

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Capone, Al

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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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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.