Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Malcolm X

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

Rostand, Jean

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bannister, Roger

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Mann, Horace

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Amy Tan

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

36.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Billings, Josh

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

Hazlitt, William

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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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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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.