Motivational Quotes

Power

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

- Rilke, Rainer Maria

Best Quotes about Power

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Cecil, Richard

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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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 appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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