Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Hamilton, Alexander

Best Quotes about Power

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Proverb, Yiddish

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Swift, Jonathan

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb, Arabian

10.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

11.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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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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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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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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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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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.

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

24.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lindner, Robert

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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

34.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

35.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

40.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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

Bible

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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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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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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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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.