Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Power

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Cotvos

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Carnegie, Andrew

10.

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

11.

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

Mencken, H. L.

12.

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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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

14.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

16.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

17.

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

Malcolm X

18.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

20.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

21.

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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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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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

24.

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

Alinsky, Saul

25.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

29.

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

Elie Wiesel

30.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

31.

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

Rand, Ayn

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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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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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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

35.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Seneca

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

Kinkel

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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

39.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

40.

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

Carnegie, Dale

41.

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

42.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

43.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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

Lord Macaulay

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.