Motivational Quotes

Power

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Power

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

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Joseph Farrell

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Harry Shearer

12.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

13.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Aeschylus

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Seneca

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 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 tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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 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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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.

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.