Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Power

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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 fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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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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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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Malcolm X

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Weil, Simone

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Aeschylus

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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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

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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