Motivational Quotes

Power

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Power

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

Bible

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, Spanish

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Malcolm X

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Aeschylus

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Harry Shearer

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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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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

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

Proverb, Norse

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca