Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Banks, Harry F.

Best Quotes about Power

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

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

John Stuart Mill

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

11.

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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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Fuller, Thomas

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wordsworth, William

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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

White, Theodore

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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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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Apocrypha

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Malcolm X

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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