Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hamilton, Alexander

Best Quotes about Power

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

15.

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

Proverb, Norse

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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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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

23.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

26.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

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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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

34.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Aeschylus

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von