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

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

Lao-Tzu

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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

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

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

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

11.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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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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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Herrich

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

Rostand, Jean

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Fromm, Erich

24.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

26.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Friedman, Milton

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

31.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

32.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

38.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

41.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

44.

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

Lord Macaulay

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.