Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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.

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

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

Hamilton, Alexander

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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

Boseley, Sarah

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hooker, Richard

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Steinem, Gloria

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Bible

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Aeschylus

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.