Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Henrik Ibsen

Best Quotes about Power

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

Billings, Josh

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

Bible

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Shakespeare, William

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Tilly

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Henrik Ibsen

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Herrich

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

44.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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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

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca