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

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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.

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

John Stuart Mill

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

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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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Harry Shearer

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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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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Lord Macaulay

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Steinem, Gloria

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Seneca

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon