Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Smith, Sydney

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

10.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

11.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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

14.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

18.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

20.

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

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Elie Wiesel

25.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

26.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

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

Bannister, Roger

28.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

32.

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

33.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

34.

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

Adams, John

35.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

38.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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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

48.

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

Kinkel

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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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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet