Motivational Quotes

Power

Will it, and set to work briskly.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Power

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Hooker, Richard

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Joseph Farrell

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

Aeschylus

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Lindner, Robert

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mann, Horace

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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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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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Weil, Simone

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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

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Seneca

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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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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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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

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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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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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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

Fuller, Thomas

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Kinkel

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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.