Motivational Quotes

Power

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

- Mizner, Addison

Best Quotes about Power

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

12.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

13.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

15.

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hooker, Richard

18.

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

Bacon, Francis

20.

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

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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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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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

24.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

25.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

28.

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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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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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

32.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

Apocrypha

35.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

36.

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

Hamilton, Alexander

37.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

40.

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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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

43.

What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

44.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Malcolm X

46.

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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