Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Baldwin, James

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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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

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Aeschylus

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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 may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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

Kinkel

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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