Motivational Quotes

Power

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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

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

Kinkel

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

Swift, Jonathan

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

12.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

13.

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

Billings, Josh

14.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

15.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

21.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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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

26.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Seneca

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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

31.

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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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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

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.