Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Amy Tan

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

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

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cotvos

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A. Bartlett Giamatti

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.