Motivational Quotes

Power

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Power

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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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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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Lord Macaulay

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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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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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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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 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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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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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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

Rand, Ayn

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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