Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Macarthur, Douglas

Best Quotes about Power

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.

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

Russell, Bertrand

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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 need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Lord Macaulay

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

Malcolm X

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Friedman, Milton

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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

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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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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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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

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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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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Henrik Ibsen

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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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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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

Billings, Josh

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

John Stuart Mill

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

Elie Wiesel

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Aeschylus

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