Motivational Quotes

Power

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Power

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Steffens, Lincoln

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Malcolm X

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Mann, Horace

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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

Proverb

21.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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.

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

28.

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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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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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

31.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

32.

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

33.

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

34.

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

Cotvos

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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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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

40.

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

Macmillan, Harold

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Hendrix, Jimi

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von