Motivational Quotes

Power

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.

Best Quotes about Power

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 man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Lindner, Robert

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Steffens, Lincoln

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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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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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Macmillan, Harold

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Herrich

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lord Macaulay

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Bannister, Roger

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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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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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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

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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.