Motivational Quotes

Power

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

- Kohe, J. Martin

Best Quotes about 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

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Bible

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Thatcher, Margaret

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

10.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

11.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

15.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

17.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Fuller, Thomas

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

23.

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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

John Stuart Mill

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mann, Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

44.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

45.

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

Billings, Josh

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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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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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.