Motivational Quotes

Power

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Power

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Hendrix, Jimi

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Friedman, Milton

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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 the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

22.

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

Amy Tan

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

25.

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Lindner, Robert

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Billings, Josh

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Baltasar Gracian

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone