Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Power

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Peter, Laurence J.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Barthes, Roland

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Friedman, Milton

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