Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Dr. Thomas Fuller

Best Quotes about Power

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Tilly

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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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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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Weil, Simone

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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

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

Bible

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Macmillan, Harold

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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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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Amy Tan

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Alinsky, Saul

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Seneca

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Banks, Harry 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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean