Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Boseley, Sarah

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Aeschylus

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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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

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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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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Barthes, Roland

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

White, Theodore

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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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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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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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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

Alinsky, Saul

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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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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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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

Hazlitt, William

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Weil, Simone

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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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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mann, Horace

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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 secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob