Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fromm, Erich

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

10.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

11.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

12.

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

Wieder, Marcia

13.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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

Proverb

18.

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

Proverb, Norse

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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

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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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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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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

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Cotvos

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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.

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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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 is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Adams, John

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

Barthes, Roland