Motivational Quotes

Power

He has the power who the majority believe in.

- Raupach

Best Quotes about Power

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Elie Wiesel

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

White, Theodore

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Archimedes

When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.

Aeschylus

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

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

10.

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

Wordsworth, William

11.

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

Amy Tan

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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 tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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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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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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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

20.

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

Boseley, Sarah

21.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Mann, Horace

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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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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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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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

34.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bible

43.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Spanish