Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Power

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

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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

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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Aeschylus

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

Lord Macaulay

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Proverb, Norse

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 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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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Billings, Josh

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

Seneca

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.