Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Apocrypha

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

11.

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

Harry Shearer

12.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

14.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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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

17.

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

Eliot, T. S.

18.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

19.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

20.

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

Wieder, Marcia

21.

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

Hazlitt, William

22.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

23.

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

24.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

25.

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

Friedman, Milton

27.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

28.

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

Smith, Sydney

29.

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

30.

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

Baldwin, James

31.

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

Malcolm X

32.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

33.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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

35.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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

37.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

38.

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

Wordsworth, William

39.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Aeschylus

42.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

43.

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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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

45.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

46.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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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

49.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

50.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria