Motivational Quotes

Power

The one who wills is the one who can.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Power

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

Joseph Farrell

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Harry Shearer

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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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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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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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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Seneca

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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

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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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 tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.