Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

White, Theodore

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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

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

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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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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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Seneca

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Henrik Ibsen

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred