Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Boseley, Sarah

Best Quotes about Power

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Yiddish

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

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

Proverb, Norse

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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 purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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 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

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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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 world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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