Motivational Quotes

Power

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Power

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

Apocrypha

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Bible

10.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Cotvos

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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

Hooker, Richard

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Boseley, Sarah

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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

Seneca

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Adams, John

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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

Henrik Ibsen

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

35.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

37.

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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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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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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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Kinkel

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

Proverb, Spanish

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