Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Power

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Steinem, Gloria

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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

Harry Shearer

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

11.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

12.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

14.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

17.

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

Banks, Harry F.

18.

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

Kinkel

19.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

20.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Friedman, Milton

22.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

23.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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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

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Barthes, Roland

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

33.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

39.

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

Wieder, Marcia

40.

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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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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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 will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.