Motivational Quotes

Power

The point of power is always in the present moment.

- Hay, Louise L.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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 deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Malcolm X

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Bannister, Roger

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Elie Wiesel

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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

Hooker, Richard

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Billings, Josh

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

Boseley, Sarah

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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

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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