Motivational Quotes

Power

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Power

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Seneca

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Bacon, Francis

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

21.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Lord Macaulay

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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

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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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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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