Motivational Quotes

Power

The greatest power is often simple patience.

- Cossman, E. Joseph

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Cotvos

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

Macmillan, Harold

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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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

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

Aeschylus

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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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

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Kinkel