Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Amy Tan

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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

Herrich

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin