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

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

10.

You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

26.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich 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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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

Malcolm X

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Steinem, Gloria

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.