Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

John Stuart Mill

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Tilly

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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