Motivational Quotes

Power

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Power

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

Proverb, Norse

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Kinkel

There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

12.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

13.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

15.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

16.

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

Billings, Josh

17.

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

Friedman, Milton

18.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

19.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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

21.

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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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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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 attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

25.

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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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

27.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

28.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Barthes, Roland

30.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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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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

33.

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

34.

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

Mann, Horace

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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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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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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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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

41.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Harry Shearer

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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.

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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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