Motivational Quotes

Power

In oratory the will must predominate.

- Hare, David

Best Quotes about Power

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Proverb, Norse

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Mann, Horace

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Seneca

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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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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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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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Baldwin, James

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

Malcolm X

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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

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.