Motivational Quotes

Power

Will is character in action.

- Mcdougall, William

Best Quotes about Power

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Fuller, Thomas

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

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

Bannister, Roger

11.

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

Malcolm X

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Apocrypha

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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

19.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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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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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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Archimedes

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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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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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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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Proverb, Yiddish

47.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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Power tires only those who do not have it.