Motivational Quotes

Power

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Power

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

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Malcolm X

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Aeschylus

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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

Elie Wiesel

11.

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

Lindner, Robert

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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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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

19.

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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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Malcolm X

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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 problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Bible

41.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon