Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Harry Shearer

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

14.

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

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Elie Wiesel

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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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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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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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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

34.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

35.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hooker, Richard

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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.

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

39.

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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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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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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 least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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