Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Power

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

A boy's will is the will of the wind.

Proverb, Norse

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Henrik Ibsen

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

Seneca

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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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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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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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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aeschylus

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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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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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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 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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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 law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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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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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 will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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

Billings, Josh

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.