Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Kinkel

Best Quotes about Power

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Rand, Ayn

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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

Bannister, Roger

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Harry Shearer

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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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

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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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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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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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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