Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

Bible

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Seneca

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Proverb, Norse

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Boseley, Sarah

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas