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

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

10.

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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

12.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

13.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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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

16.

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

Friedman, Milton

19.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

20.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

21.

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

Billings, Josh

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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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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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Swift, Jonathan

33.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Harry Shearer

39.

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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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Malcolm X

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.