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 is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Aeschylus

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Smith, Sydney

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

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

Camus, Albert

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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Friedman, Milton

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Kinkel

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Billings, Josh

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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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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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.