Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Power

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Lao-Tzu

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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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

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

Herrich

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Billings, Josh

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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

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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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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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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Mann, Horace

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

Lindner, Robert

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Colton, Charles Caleb