Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Wordsworth, William

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Archimedes

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Harry Shearer

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Cotvos

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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