Motivational Quotes

Power

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Seneca

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Aeschylus

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

Lord Macaulay

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.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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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

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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

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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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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

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Wordsworth, William

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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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

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

Billings, Josh

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.