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

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

Seneca

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

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

Adams, John

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

Bannister, Roger

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Orwell, George

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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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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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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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

28.

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

Rand, Ayn

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Aeschylus

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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

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

Kinkel

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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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

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic