Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

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

Archimedes

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Harry Shearer

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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

Byrnes, James F.

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Herrich

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Billings, Josh

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

Seneca

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 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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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth