Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Power

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Archimedes

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Steinem, Gloria

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

Joseph Farrell

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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 price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Lord Macaulay

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

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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

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Billings, Josh

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

Banks, Harry F.