Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Aeschylus

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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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 attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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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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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Macmillan, Harold

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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Hazlitt, William

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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos