Motivational Quotes

Power

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.

Best Quotes about Power

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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

Apocrypha

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

Harry Shearer

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

24.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Alinsky, Saul

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?