Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Macarthur, Douglas

Best Quotes about Power

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cotvos

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Apocrypha

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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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 will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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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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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

28.

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 is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Capone, Al

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Harry Shearer

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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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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret