Motivational Quotes

Power

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Power

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Joseph Farrell

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bacon, Francis

10.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

11.

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

John Stuart Mill

12.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

13.

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Aeschylus

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Boseley, Sarah

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.