Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Seneca

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

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

10.

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

11.

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

Proverb

12.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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 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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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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 corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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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 every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

29.

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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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bible

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

Aeschylus

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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

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

Cotvos

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.