Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hazlitt, William

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

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

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

Aeschylus

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

Adams, John

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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

Weil, Simone

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Apocrypha

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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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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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

42.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric