Motivational Quotes

Power

Man has will, but woman has her way.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Power

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

Banks, Harry F.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Swift, Jonathan

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

John Stuart Mill

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

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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

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Elie Wiesel

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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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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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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Cotvos

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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 the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean