Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Byrnes, James F.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Harry Shearer

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Seneca

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

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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

Aeschylus

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Malcolm X

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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