Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Boseley, Sarah

Best Quotes about Power

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

Fromm, Erich

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

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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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Aeschylus

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

Barthes, Roland

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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

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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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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Malcolm X

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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

Malcolm X

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Proverb, Norse

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Mann, Horace

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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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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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

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

Harry Shearer

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon