Motivational Quotes

Power

Will it, and set to work briskly.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Smith, Sydney

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Malcolm X

10.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

Seneca

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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 is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Friedman, Milton

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Proverb

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fromm, Erich

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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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

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von