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

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

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

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

Rostand, Jean

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Lord Macaulay

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Weil, Simone

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

Baltasar Gracian

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

John Stuart Mill

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Mann, Horace

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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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

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

Aeschylus

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

Malcolm X

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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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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Kinkel

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan