Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Power

Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Seneca

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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

Billings, Josh

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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

John Stuart Mill

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Proverb, Arabian

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

Boseley, Sarah

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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Joseph Farrell

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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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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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Malcolm X

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Malcolm X

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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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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

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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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

Proverb