Motivational Quotes

Power

The greatest power is often simple patience.

- Cossman, E. Joseph

Best Quotes about Power

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Andrew

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Cotvos

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Malcolm X

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Seneca

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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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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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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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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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

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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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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 corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Kinkel

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

Aeschylus

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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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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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

Friedman, Milton