Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Seneca

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

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

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Hazlitt, William

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Aeschylus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

Lord Macaulay

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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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

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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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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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander