Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Power

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Amy Tan

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

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

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Carnegie, Dale

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

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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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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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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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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Boseley, Sarah

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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Tillich, Paul

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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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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

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lord Macaulay

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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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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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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

33.

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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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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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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He has the power who the majority believe in.