Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Banks, Harry F.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Russell, Bertrand

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Adams, John

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Boseley, Sarah

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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Billings, Josh

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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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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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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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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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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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.

Fromm, Erich

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

Bible

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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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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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

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Carnegie, Andrew

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.

Cotvos

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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 king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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