Motivational Quotes

Power

Will it, and set to work briskly.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Fromm, Erich

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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

John Stuart Mill

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Malcolm X

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Harry Shearer

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

Fuller, Thomas

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Kinkel

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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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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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lord Macaulay

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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 is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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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