Motivational Quotes

Power

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

- Lindner, Robert

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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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

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

Aeschylus

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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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