Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Power

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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 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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

18.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Smith, Sydney

28.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Hill, Napoleon

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

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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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman