Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Morgenthau, Hans J.

Best Quotes about Power

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

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

Cecil, Richard

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Rostand, Jean

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Archimedes

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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

Adams, John

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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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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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Bannister, Roger

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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton