Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Hill, Napoleon

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

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

Tilly

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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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

11.

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Malcolm X

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

Fuller, Thomas

18.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

20.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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

Apocrypha

25.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Aeschylus

27.

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

Fromm, Erich

28.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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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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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

31.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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

33.

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

34.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

36.

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

37.

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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Lao-Tzu

40.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Lord Macaulay

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Cotvos

45.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kinkel

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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

Barthes, Roland