Motivational Quotes

Power

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

- Accius

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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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 gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Henrik Ibsen

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aeschylus

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

White, Theodore

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Seneca

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

Herrich

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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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