Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Power

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

Harry Shearer

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

Herrich

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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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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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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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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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kinkel

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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