Motivational Quotes

Power

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Power

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Carnegie, Dale

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lord Macaulay

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

27.

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

White, Theodore

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

30.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Baldwin, James

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Amy Tan

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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 tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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.