Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Power

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

Wordsworth, William

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Swift, Jonathan

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Proverb

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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

Henrik Ibsen

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

32.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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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

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

Bible

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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.