Motivational Quotes

Power

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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 quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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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

12.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Wieder, Marcia

18.

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

Seneca

19.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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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 the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

25.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Banks, Harry F.

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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

Proverb

33.

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 mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Friedman, Milton

38.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

40.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hooker, Richard

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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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

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

Aeschylus

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry