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

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Wordsworth, William

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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

Bannister, Roger

10.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

11.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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-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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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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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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Harry Shearer

26.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

John Stuart Mill

31.

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

White, Theodore

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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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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

48.

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

Proverb, Norse