Motivational Quotes

Power

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

- Elie Wiesel

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lao-Tzu

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

10.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

11.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

Lindner, Robert

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb, Norse

15.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Hooker, Richard

18.

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

19.

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

20.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

21.

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

Seneca

22.

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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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

26.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

27.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

28.

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

29.

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

Mann, Horace

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

31.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

32.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

34.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

35.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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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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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell