Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Capone, Al

Best Quotes about Power

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Proverb, Norse

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

10.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Mencken, H. L.

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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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 corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Aeschylus

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

45.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

46.

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

Harry Shearer

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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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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