Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Power

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

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shakespeare, William

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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

Barthes, Roland

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

Billings, Josh

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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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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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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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

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, 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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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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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

33.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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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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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

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Malcolm X

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von