Motivational Quotes

Power

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Hooker, Richard

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Arabian

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Seneca

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Fuller, Thomas

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Harry Shearer

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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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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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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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal