Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Power

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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

Mann, Horace

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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.

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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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

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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.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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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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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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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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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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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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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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

Baldwin, James

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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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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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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

Bible

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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