Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Power

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Smith, Sydney

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Billings, Josh

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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 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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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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

Mann, Horace

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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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 stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson