Motivational Quotes

Power

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Power

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Harry Shearer

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

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

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Friedman, Milton

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

10.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Seneca

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

22.

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

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Rand, Ayn

32.

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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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

40.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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