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

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Joseph Farrell

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Cecil, Richard

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

10.

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

11.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

13.

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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

18.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Macmillan, Harold

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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

33.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Banks, Harry F.

40.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.