Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Joseph Farrell

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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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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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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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hazlitt, William

20.

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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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 tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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