Motivational Quotes

Power

The law always limits every power it gives.

- Hume, David

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Thatcher, Margaret

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Lord Macaulay

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Herrich

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Macmillan, Harold

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Amy Tan

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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