Motivational Quotes

Power

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

- Macmillan, Harold

Best Quotes about Power

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Baltasar Gracian

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cotvos

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Bible

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Aeschylus

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

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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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, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kinkel

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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