Motivational Quotes

Power

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

- Vere, Sir Aubrey De

Best Quotes about Power

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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

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

Shakespeare, William

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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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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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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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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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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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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 attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Lord Macaulay

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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 in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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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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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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