Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Henrik Ibsen

Best Quotes about Power

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Malcolm X

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Alinsky, Saul

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Aeschylus

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

Mann, Horace

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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 mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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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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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.

Rostand, Jean

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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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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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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