Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Vere, Sir Aubrey De

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Rostand, Jean

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Harry Shearer

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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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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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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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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Billings, Josh

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

Byrnes, James F.

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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Seneca

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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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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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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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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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.