Motivational Quotes

Power

The look of a king is itself a deed.

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Power

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Cotvos

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

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

10.

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

11.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

12.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Bible

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

17.

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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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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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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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Herrich

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

30.

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 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

32.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Malcolm X

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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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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Malcolm X

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

Fuller, Thomas

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.