Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Capone, Al

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

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

Bible

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Malcolm X

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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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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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Friedman, Milton

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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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

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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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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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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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

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

Seneca

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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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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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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 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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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh