Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Byrnes, James F.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

Rostand, Jean

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Seneca

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

Carnegie, Dale

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bible

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Apocrypha

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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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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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard