Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Power

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Seneca

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

Bannister, Roger

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

Billings, Josh

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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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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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.