Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Capone, Al

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

Lord Macaulay

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Norse

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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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

Bacon, Francis

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Malcolm X

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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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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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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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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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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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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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

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

Seneca

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

Harry Shearer

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David