Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

Rostand, Jean

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

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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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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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Billings, Josh

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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.

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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

Seneca

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Fuller, Thomas