Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Power

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

Alinsky, Saul

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Aeschylus

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Lord Macaulay

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Hazlitt, William

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Archimedes

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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 boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

33.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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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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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop