Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Hendrix, Jimi

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Baldwin, James

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

10.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Friedman, Milton

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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

Mann, Horace

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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 look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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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

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A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

32.

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

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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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

38.

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

Banks, Harry F.

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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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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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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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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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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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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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

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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

Bannister, Roger

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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