Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

10.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

11.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

21.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

22.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

23.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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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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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

42.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.