Motivational Quotes

Power

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Power

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.

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Byrnes, James F.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Billings, Josh

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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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

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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 point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hooker, Richard

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

White, Theodore

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

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

Elie Wiesel

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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