Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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.

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

Aeschylus

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

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.

Cousins, Norman

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

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

Henrik Ibsen

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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 power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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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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We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Rostand, Jean

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Weil, Simone

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Mann, Horace

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Alinsky, Saul

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Proverb, Arabian

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