Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Tilly

Best Quotes about Power

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

Seneca

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

Apocrypha

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Rostand, Jean

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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

White, Theodore

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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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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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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 secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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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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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

Lord Macaulay

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.