Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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

11.

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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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Wieder, Marcia

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Kinkel

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

Mann, Horace

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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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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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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

33.

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

Harry Shearer

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Lord Macaulay

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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Malcolm X

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

Bible

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von