Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Power

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Aeschylus

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

Steinem, Gloria

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

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

White, Theodore

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Lord Macaulay

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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 purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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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

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Amy Tan