Motivational Quotes

Power

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Power

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Kinkel

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Proverb, Spanish

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Boseley, Sarah

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Cecil, Richard

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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 ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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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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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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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Proverb, Norse

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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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

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

Lindner, Robert

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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

Baltasar Gracian

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.