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

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Barthes, Roland

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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

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

Proverb, Norse

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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 is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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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The look of a king is itself a deed.

Paul, Jean

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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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

Aeschylus

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

Fuller, Thomas

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lord Macaulay

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Proverb, Arabian

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The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Joseph Farrell

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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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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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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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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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.