Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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

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

Morgenthau, Hans J.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Aeschylus

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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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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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Harry Shearer

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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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 always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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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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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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

Barthes, Roland

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

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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