Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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 in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Fromm, Erich

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 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

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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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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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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Banks, Harry F.

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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

Proverb, Spanish

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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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

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia