Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Proverb, Norse

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Malcolm X

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

22.

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

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

Bible

24.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

John Stuart Mill

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

Steinem, Gloria

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Tilly

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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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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

34.

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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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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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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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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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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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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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Hazlitt, William