Motivational Quotes

Power

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

- Kazantzakis, Nikos

Best Quotes about Power

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mann, Horace

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Kinkel

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

Macmillan, Harold

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Proverb, Norse

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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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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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

Malcolm X

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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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

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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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