Motivational Quotes

Power

The one who wills is the one who can.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Carnegie, Dale

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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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 fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

Aeschylus

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Henrik Ibsen

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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

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

Mann, Horace

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Norse

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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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