Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

Proverb

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Henrik Ibsen

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Boseley, Sarah

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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.

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Fromm, Erich

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

White, Theodore

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

Friedman, Milton

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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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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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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Power tires only those who do not have it.