Motivational Quotes

Power

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

- Joseph Farrell

Best Quotes about Power

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

Cotvos

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

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

Vidal, Gore

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

Malcolm X

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

Dworkin, Andrea

Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

10.

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

Harry Shearer

11.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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

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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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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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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

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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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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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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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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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

38.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Capone, Al

43.

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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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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When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fromm, Erich

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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