Motivational Quotes

Power

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

- Mizner, Addison

Best Quotes about Power

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Bible

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

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

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

12.

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

Proverb, Arabian

13.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

14.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

15.

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

16.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

19.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

20.

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

21.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

22.

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

Rand, Ayn

23.

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

24.

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

25.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

26.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

28.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

29.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

30.

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

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

Steinem, Gloria

32.

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

33.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

34.

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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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

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

Aeschylus

38.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Hill, Napoleon

40.

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

Barthes, Roland

41.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

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

44.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

45.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.