Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Alinsky, Saul

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Kinkel

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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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

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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.

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.