Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Kinkel

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

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

Bannister, Roger

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.

Cousins, Norman

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lao-Tzu

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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