Motivational Quotes

Power

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

- Macmillan, Harold

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Apocrypha

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Lord Macaulay

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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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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mann, Horace

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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

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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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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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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 the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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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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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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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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.