Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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

Mann, Horace

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Malcolm X

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

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.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Elie Wiesel

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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 corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.