Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Power

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

Steinem, Gloria

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Joseph Farrell

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

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

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

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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

Archimedes

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Barthes, Roland

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

White, Theodore

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

Kinkel

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Adams, John

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich