Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

Aeschylus

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

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

Weil, Simone

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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

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

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

Hooker, Richard

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

10.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

11.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

18.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

19.

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

20.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

21.

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

Elie Wiesel

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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

25.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Mann, Horace

30.

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

Amy Tan

31.

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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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

39.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

43.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon