Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Power

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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 will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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

Aeschylus

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Bible

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Hazlitt, William

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.