Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

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

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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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

Lord Macaulay

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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

Friedman, Milton

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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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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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Bible

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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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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He has the power who the majority believe in.

Raupach

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Aeschylus

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Mann, Horace

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

Seneca

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Hamilton, Alexander

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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 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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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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Power never takes a step back except 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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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Lincoln, Abraham

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