Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Macarthur, Douglas

Best Quotes about Power

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Malcolm X

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

Mann, Horace

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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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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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

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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 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 king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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

Elie Wiesel

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Power tires only those who do not have it.