Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Vere, Sir Aubrey De

Best Quotes about Power

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

Baldwin, James

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Bible

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

Capone, Al

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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

John Stuart Mill

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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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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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Aeschylus

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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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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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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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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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Macmillan, Harold

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid