Motivational Quotes

Power

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Friedman, Milton

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aeschylus

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

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Seneca

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Capone, Al

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

32.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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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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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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