Motivational Quotes

Power

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Power

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Amy Tan

10.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

11.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

12.

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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

14.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

19.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

20.

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

21.

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

Banks, Harry F.

22.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

23.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

24.

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

25.

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

26.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

27.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

29.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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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

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Lord Macaulay

34.

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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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

John Stuart Mill

38.

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

Fromm, Erich

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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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

41.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

42.

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

Malcolm X

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.