Motivational Quotes

Power

The point of power is always in the present moment.

- Hay, Louise L.

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Aeschylus

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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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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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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

Billings, Josh

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Friedman, Milton

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.