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

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Henrik Ibsen

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Apocrypha

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Harry Shearer

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Seneca

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Rand, Ayn

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Elie Wiesel

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Billings, Josh

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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 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 point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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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