Motivational Quotes

Power

Personal power is the ability to take action.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Power

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

Fuller, Thomas

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Lord Macaulay

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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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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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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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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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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

48.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.