Motivational Quotes

Power

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Power

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

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

John Stuart Mill

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Shakespeare, William

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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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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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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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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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Boseley, Sarah

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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.

Patton, George S.

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

Aeschylus

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William