Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

1.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

3.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

4.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

5.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

6.

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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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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

10.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Hazlitt, William

12.

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

Boseley, Sarah

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

14.

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

15.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

16.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

18.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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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.

Cousins, Norman

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

28.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

29.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

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

Hooker, Richard

31.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

32.

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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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

36.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

37.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

39.

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

40.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Swift, Jonathan

42.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

43.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

44.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

45.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

49.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

50.

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