Motivational Quotes

Power

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

- Joseph Farrell

Best Quotes about Power

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Proverb, Spanish

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

10.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

14.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

16.

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

17.

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

Seneca

18.

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

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

Aeschylus

20.

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

Harry Shearer

21.

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

22.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Malcolm X

25.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

27.

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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Swift, Jonathan

30.

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

Proverb

31.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

33.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

34.

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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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

37.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

38.

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

40.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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