Motivational Quotes

Power

Voice of one, voice of none.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Power

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kinkel

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Banks, Harry F.

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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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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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 consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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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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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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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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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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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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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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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

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.