Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Herrich

Best Quotes about Power

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

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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 is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Malcolm X

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

Proverb, Yiddish

17.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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 convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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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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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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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

41.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Amy Tan

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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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

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph