Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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

White, Theodore

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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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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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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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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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 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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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Macmillan, Harold

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo