Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Tilly

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Capone, Al

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

Seneca

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

11.

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

12.

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

14.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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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

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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 in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

39.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Fromm, Erich