Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

White, Theodore

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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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

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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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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Bacon, Francis

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Barthes, Roland

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Proverb, Norse

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Boseley, Sarah

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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.