Motivational Quotes

Power

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

- Mizner, Addison

Best Quotes about Power

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

10.

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

11.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Proverb, Spanish

17.

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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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

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

Bible

21.

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

Elie Wiesel

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Harry Shearer

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

Herrich

29.

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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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

31.

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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

33.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

39.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

40.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Seneca

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Hazlitt, William