Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Bannister, Roger

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

Baldwin, James

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

Cecil, Richard

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Kohe, J. Martin

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

11.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Alinsky, Saul

15.

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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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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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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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Mann, Horace

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

31.

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

Hazlitt, William

32.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

33.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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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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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

39.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

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

Friedman, Milton

42.

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

Fuller, Thomas

43.

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

44.

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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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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Our power is in our ability to decide.