Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Spanish

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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

Apocrypha

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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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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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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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

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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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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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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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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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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Aeschylus

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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