Motivational Quotes

Power

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

Best Quotes about Power

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

Hooker, Richard

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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

Bible

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Rostand, Jean

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Aeschylus

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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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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Steinem, Gloria

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Weil, Simone

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Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Aeschylus

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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 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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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

Proverb, Norse

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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 can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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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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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 purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Kissinger, Henry

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.

Malcolm X

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

Proverb, Spanish

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I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

Rilke, Rainer Maria