Motivational Quotes

Power

When the will is ready the feet are light.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Smith, Sydney

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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

Barthes, Roland

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

White, Theodore

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.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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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

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, Norse

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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.

21.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Cecil, Richard

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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Malcolm X

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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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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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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor