Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Alinsky, Saul

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kinkel

12.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Bible

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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

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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 doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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

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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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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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Personal power is the ability to take action.