Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Baltasar Gracian

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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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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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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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Rostand, Jean

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Vizinczey, Stephen

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Adams, John

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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.

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Harry Shearer

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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 ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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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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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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

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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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi