Motivational Quotes

Power

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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

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

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

10.

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

Boseley, Sarah

11.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Lord Macaulay

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Baldwin, James

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

Thatcher, Margaret

20.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

23.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Aeschylus

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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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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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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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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

White, Theodore

40.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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