Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Power

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Seneca

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Peter, Laurence J.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Seneca

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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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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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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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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Billings, Josh

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

Friedman, Milton

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Harry Shearer

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Malcolm X

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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 highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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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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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 will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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 world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian