Motivational Quotes

Power

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Power

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Camus, Albert

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

Apocrypha

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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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

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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 is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Elie Wiesel

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

Friedman, Milton

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

John Stuart Mill

35.

To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Smith, Sydney

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

Lois McMaster Bujold