Motivational Quotes

Power

When the will is ready the feet are light.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Power

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Cecil, Richard

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Mann, Horace

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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 price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Kinkel

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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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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter 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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Seneca

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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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 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 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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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 look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Hazlitt, William

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

John Stuart Mill

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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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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Malcolm X

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