Motivational Quotes

Power

Will is character in action.

- Mcdougall, William

Best Quotes about Power

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

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

Macmillan, Harold

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Amy Tan

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

10.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

11.

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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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Carnegie, Dale

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Malcolm X

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Seneca

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

33.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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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

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

Steinem, Gloria

41.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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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

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Seneca

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