Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

Lord Macaulay

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

10.

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

11.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

12.

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

Lindner, Robert

13.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Henrik Ibsen

19.

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

Barthes, Roland

20.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

22.

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

23.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

27.

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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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

30.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

31.

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

Mencken, H. L.

32.

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

Bannister, Roger

33.

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

Kinkel

35.

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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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

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

Elie Wiesel

38.

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

Seneca

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

40.

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

Bible

41.

I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

43.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

44.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bevan, Aneurin

48.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Baltasar Gracian

49.

You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.

Proverb, Arabian