Motivational Quotes

Power

The one who wills is the one who can.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Power

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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Aeschylus

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Friedman, Milton

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Seneca

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Mann, Horace

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

36.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

42.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

43.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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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