Motivational Quotes

Power

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Power

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Yiddish

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

10.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

11.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

12.

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

Hooker, Richard

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Weil, Simone

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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

Banks, Harry F.

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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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

30.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

31.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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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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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

42.

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