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

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

Bacon, Francis

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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.

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Seneca

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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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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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 urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bible

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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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.