Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Power

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lord Macaulay

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Hazlitt, William

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Bible

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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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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Macmillan, Harold

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Kinkel

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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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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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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