Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Kazantzakis, Nikos

Best Quotes about Power

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Proverb, Arabian

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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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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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lao-Tzu

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Harry Shearer

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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.