Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Power

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Peter, Laurence J.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

10.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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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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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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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Bannister, Roger

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Billings, Josh

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Aeschylus

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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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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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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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