Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Power

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

10.

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

Proverb, Norse

11.

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

12.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Billings, Josh

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Banks, Harry F.

30.

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

Macmillan, Harold

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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Elie Wiesel

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Proverb, Arabian

41.

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

Baldwin, James

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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

Seneca