Motivational Quotes

Power

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

- Steffens, Lincoln

Best Quotes about Power

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

Amy Tan

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Foucault, Michel

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

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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.

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Archimedes

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lord Macaulay

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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

Hill, Napoleon

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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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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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

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 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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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.