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

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

Steinem, Gloria

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Steffens, Lincoln

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

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

Aeschylus

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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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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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 point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Seneca

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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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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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 great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos