Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Baltasar Gracian

Best Quotes about Power

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Carnegie, Andrew

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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 feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bannister, Roger

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Fromm, Erich

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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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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Smith, Sydney

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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

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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 world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

Boseley, Sarah

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.