Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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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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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Malcolm X

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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.