Motivational Quotes

Power

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.

Best Quotes about Power

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

Lord Macaulay

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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

Baldwin, James

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bible

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Kinkel

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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