Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rand, Ayn

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Steinem, Gloria

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Harry Shearer

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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

Seneca

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

Seneca

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Smith, Sydney

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Seneca

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.