Motivational Quotes

Power

He has the power who the majority believe in.

- Raupach

Best Quotes about Power

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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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

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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

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

22.

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

Kinkel

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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

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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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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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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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

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

Harry Shearer

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Lord Macaulay

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

John Stuart Mill

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Alinsky, Saul

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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