Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Proverb, Arabian

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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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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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Macmillan, Harold

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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 exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Baldwin, James

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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