Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Power

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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

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

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Billings, Josh

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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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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

White, Theodore

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Aeschylus

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

Fuller, Thomas

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Boseley, Sarah

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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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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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 does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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