Motivational Quotes

Power

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

- Stewart L. Udall

Best Quotes about Power

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Archimedes

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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

Lord Macaulay

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Apocrypha

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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.

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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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 creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.