Motivational Quotes

Power

The greatest power is often simple patience.

- Cossman, E. Joseph

Best Quotes about Power

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

Camus, Albert

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

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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

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

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

10.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Hill, Napoleon

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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

Boseley, Sarah

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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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 man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Joseph Farrell

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

Aeschylus

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

White, Theodore

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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The point of power is always in the present moment.