Motivational Quotes

Power

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

- Cotvos

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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

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.

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

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Herrich

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Aeschylus

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Mann, Horace

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Camus, Albert

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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