Motivational Quotes

Power

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Power

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

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

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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

Lindner, Robert

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The look of a king is itself a deed.

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

Hooker, Richard

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!

Amy Tan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

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

Aeschylus

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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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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bannister, Roger

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

White, Theodore

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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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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Proverb, Arabian

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