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

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Malcolm X

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

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Capone, Al

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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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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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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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Carnegie, Dale

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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 my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.