Motivational Quotes

Power

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

- James A. Garfield

Best Quotes about Power

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

Swift, Jonathan

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Seneca

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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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

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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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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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

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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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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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

Shakespeare, William

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Barthes, Roland