Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Weil, Simone

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

Bannister, Roger

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lindner, Robert

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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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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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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 will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Malcolm X

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur