Motivational Quotes

Power

The look of a king is itself a deed.

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Malcolm X

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

Herrich

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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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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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

White, Theodore

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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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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Proverb

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Cotvos

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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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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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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