Motivational Quotes

Power

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Power

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Harry Shearer

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Apocrypha

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

Kinkel

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

31.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Cotvos

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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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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Friedman, Milton

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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.