Motivational Quotes

Power

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Power

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Thatcher, Margaret

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

White, Theodore

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

Fuller, Thomas

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Weil, Simone

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

20.

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

Kinkel

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Cotvos

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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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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Harry Shearer

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Aeschylus

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

Proverb, Norse

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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

Bible

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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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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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.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Lord Macaulay

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.