Motivational Quotes

Power

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Power

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

Malcolm X

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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

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

Tilly

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Amy Tan

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Kinkel

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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

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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 the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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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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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Banks, Harry F.

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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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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

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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In oratory the will must predominate.