Motivational Quotes

Power

Man was predestined to have free will.

- Luyah, Hal

Best Quotes about Power

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

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

Seneca

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

Seneca

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Rand, Ayn

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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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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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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Kinkel

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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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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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 the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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