Motivational Quotes

Power

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

- Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Best Quotes about Power

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Joseph Farrell

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Proverb, Norse

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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 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 need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Bible

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

Henrik Ibsen

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Shakespeare, William

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Aeschylus

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

Seneca

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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 urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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.