Motivational Quotes

Power

Will is character in action.

- Mcdougall, William

Best Quotes about Power

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Castaneda, Carlos

10.

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

John Stuart Mill

11.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

12.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

13.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

15.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.

19.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Seneca

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

Mann, Horace

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

27.

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

Herrich

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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

30.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

35.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 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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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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He has the power who the majority believe in.