Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hooker, Richard

Best Quotes about Power

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

Carnegie, Andrew

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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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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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Kinkel

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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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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Lord Macaulay

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur