Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Cotvos

Best Quotes about Power

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

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fuller, Thomas

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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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 king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Barthes, Roland

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Aeschylus

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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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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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.