Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Weil, Simone

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Malcolm X

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Billings, Josh

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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 stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Wieder, Marcia

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