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

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Proverb, Yiddish

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

10.

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

11.

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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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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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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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

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

Rand, Ayn

29.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

39.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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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