Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Dr. Thomas Fuller

Best Quotes about Power

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Apocrypha

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Kinkel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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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

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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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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Steinem, Gloria

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

Banks, Harry F.

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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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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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Proverb, Norse

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Aeschylus

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