Motivational Quotes

Power

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

John Stuart Mill

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

Henrik Ibsen

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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

Bonaparte, 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

14.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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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

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Macmillan, Harold

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Kinkel

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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

44.

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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.