Motivational Quotes

Power

Man has will, but woman has her way.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Power

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Cotvos

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Aeschylus

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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 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 commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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

Bible

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kinkel

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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 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, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone