Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Best Quotes about Power

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Aeschylus

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

Friedman, Milton

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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

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

John Stuart Mill

12.

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

Proverb, Spanish

13.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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

Seneca

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

27.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

28.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

29.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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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

33.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Wordsworth, William

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