Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Weil, Simone

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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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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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Adams, John

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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