Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

Malcolm X

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

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

Bible

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

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

10.

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

John Stuart Mill

11.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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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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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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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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 will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Harry Shearer

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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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

40.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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

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

Bible

43.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

44.

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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Camus, Albert

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

Hooker, Richard

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George