Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Bannister, Roger

Best Quotes about Power

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

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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

Macmillan, Harold

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Hazlitt, William

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Proverb

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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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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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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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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Wieder, Marcia

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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

34.

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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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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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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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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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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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Malcolm X

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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The point of power is always in the present moment.