Motivational Quotes

Power

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Boseley, Sarah

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Billings, Josh

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

Kinkel

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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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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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert