Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Herrich

Best Quotes about Power

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

Apocrypha

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Billings, Josh

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Malcolm X

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

10.

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

11.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

12.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

13.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

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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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

17.

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

Banks, Harry F.

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

20.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

21.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

22.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

23.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Henrik Ibsen

25.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

30.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Macmillan, Harold

33.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

34.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

35.

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 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

37.

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

Proverb, Norse

38.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

39.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

48.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

49.

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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi