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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Proverb, Yiddish

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Alinsky, Saul

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Aeschylus

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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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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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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

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Kinkel

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