Motivational Quotes

Power

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Power

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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 tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Herrich

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

Proverb, Norse

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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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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Malcolm X

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

32.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Fuller, Thomas

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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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