Motivational Quotes

Power

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

Best Quotes about Power

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

Apocrypha

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

12.

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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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

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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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 gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Baltasar Gracian

40.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

42.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Seneca

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

Elie Wiesel