Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Power

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Proverb

12.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Joseph Farrell

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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

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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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

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Henrik Ibsen

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

White, Theodore

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

Lord Macaulay

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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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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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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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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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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Apocrypha

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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