Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Proverb, Arabian

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Macarthur, Douglas

10.

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

Apocrypha

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Bible

14.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

15.

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

16.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

18.

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

Hill, Napoleon

19.

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

Bannister, Roger

20.

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

21.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

22.

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

Fromm, Erich

23.

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

Macmillan, Harold

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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

25.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cecil, Richard

28.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Vizinczey, Stephen

29.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

33.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

35.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Byrnes, James F.

37.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

39.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

40.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

41.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

42.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

43.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson