Motivational Quotes

Power

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.

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

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Aeschylus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aeschylus

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Boseley, Sarah

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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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