Motivational Quotes

Power

The greatest power is often simple patience.

- Cossman, E. Joseph

Best Quotes about Power

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

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

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

John Stuart Mill

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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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

Hazlitt, William

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

14.

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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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Bible

23.

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 look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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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 man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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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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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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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

Amy Tan

46.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria