Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

10.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

11.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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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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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

White, Theodore

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

Macmillan, Harold

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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 price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Steinem, Gloria

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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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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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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