Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Proverb, Spanish

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

10.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

12.

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

Fromm, Erich

13.

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

14.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

15.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

16.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

17.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

18.

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

19.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

23.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

24.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

25.

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

27.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

28.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Thatcher, Margaret

32.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

33.

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

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

36.

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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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

44.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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

Friedman, Milton

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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