Motivational Quotes

Power

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

- Wieder, Marcia

Best Quotes about Power

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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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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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Seneca

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Seneca

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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

Henrik Ibsen

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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