Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Power

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Mann, Horace

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.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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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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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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 tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Henrik Ibsen

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Bacon, Francis

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon