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

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Eliot, T. S.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

11.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Aeschylus

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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

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

Archimedes

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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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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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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 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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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

39.

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

Amy Tan

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Aeschylus

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.