Motivational Quotes

Power

The point of power is always in the present moment.

- Hay, Louise L.

Best Quotes about Power

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

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.

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

Wordsworth, William

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Aeschylus

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

White, Theodore

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Seneca

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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 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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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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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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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter