Motivational Quotes

Power

The law always limits every power it gives.

- Hume, David

Best Quotes about Power

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wordsworth, William

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Harry Shearer

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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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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

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Alinsky, Saul

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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.

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

Weil, Simone

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Elie Wiesel

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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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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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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bible

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Henrik Ibsen

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Fuller, Thomas