Motivational Quotes

Power

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Seneca

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

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

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Proverb

40.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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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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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Malcolm X

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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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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.