Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Dworkin, Andrea

Best Quotes about Power

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

Mann, Horace

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William