Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Power

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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

John Stuart Mill

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Aeschylus

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Bible

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Lord Macaulay

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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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.