Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Aeschylus

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

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Fromm, Erich

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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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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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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 corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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 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

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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