Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Power

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

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

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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

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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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 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

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Aeschylus

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Weil, Simone

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Malcolm X

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph