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

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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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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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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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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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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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 gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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

Malcolm X

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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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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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 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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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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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

Proverb, Arabian

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Adams, John

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo