Motivational Quotes

Power

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Power

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Weil, Simone

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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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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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Malcolm X

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Steinem, Gloria

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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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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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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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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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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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Malcolm X

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Capone, Al

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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