Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Lord Macaulay

Best Quotes about Power

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Archimedes

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

Macarthur, Douglas

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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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 addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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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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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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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Steinem, Gloria

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Malcolm X

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Fuller, Thomas

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Harry Shearer

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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