Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Alinsky, Saul

Best Quotes about Power

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Hazlitt, William

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

12.

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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Kinkel

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

Friedman, Milton

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Friedman, Milton

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Aeschylus

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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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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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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

Seneca

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Seneca

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Banks, Harry F.

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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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