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

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Bannister, Roger

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

Fuller, Thomas

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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

Lao-Tzu

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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 one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Bacon, Francis

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

John Stuart Mill

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Harry Shearer

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

White, Theodore

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Herrich

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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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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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

Weil, Simone

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.