Motivational Quotes

Power

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

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.

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

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

Proverb, Norse

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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

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

Weil, Simone

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Malcolm X

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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 price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Apocrypha

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

32.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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

Bible

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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 urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

41.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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