Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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

Hazlitt, William

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Adams, John

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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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

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

Mann, Horace

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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.