Motivational Quotes

Power

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

- Propertius, Sextus

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Kinkel

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

Malcolm X

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Herrich

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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

Malcolm X

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Elie Wiesel

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

Aeschylus

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Seneca

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Cotvos

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

Amy Tan

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rand, Ayn