Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Proverb, Norse

Best Quotes about Power

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

Bannister, Roger

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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

Lord Macaulay

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

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb, Norse

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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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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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 doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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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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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

34.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Cecil, Richard

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

Tilly

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What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Fromm, Erich

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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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 in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo