Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Adams, John

Best Quotes about Power

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Friedman, Milton

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Kinkel

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Apocrypha

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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 cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb, Norse

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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.

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.