Motivational Quotes

Power

The look of a king is itself a deed.

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Power

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

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Kinkel

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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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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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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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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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