Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Best Quotes about Power

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

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

Baldwin, James

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Billings, Josh

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

Seneca

10.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

11.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

12.

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 mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Fromm, Erich

18.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bible

20.

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

21.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

24.

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

Macmillan, Harold

25.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

26.

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

Baltasar Gracian

27.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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

29.

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

Proverb, Arabian

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 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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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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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

38.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

Aeschylus

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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