Motivational Quotes

Power

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Power

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

Amy Tan

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hill, Napoleon

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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 in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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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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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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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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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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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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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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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Steinem, Gloria

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Norse

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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

Kinkel

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.