Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bannister, Roger

Best Quotes about Power

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hooker, Richard

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.

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

Aeschylus

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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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 in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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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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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Byrnes, James F.

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Friedman, Milton

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Hazlitt, William

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo