Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Kinkel

Best Quotes about Power

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

Steffens, Lincoln

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Kinkel

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Henrik Ibsen

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

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

Bible

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

11.

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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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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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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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

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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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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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 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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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

28.

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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

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 will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Steinem, Gloria

42.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Lao-Tzu

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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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