Motivational Quotes

Power

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Power

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

10.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

11.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Weil, Simone

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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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

19.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Bannister, Roger

23.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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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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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

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Carnegie, Andrew

34.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Aeschylus

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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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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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

Henrik Ibsen

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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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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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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton