Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Rostand, Jean

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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-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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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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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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

20.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

24.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Lord Macaulay

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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

37.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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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.