Motivational Quotes

Power

With the eye made quiet by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Power

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

Billings, Josh

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Cotvos

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

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

Amy Tan

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Thatcher, Margaret

10.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

15.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

Fromm, Erich

18.

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

Archimedes

19.

What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.

Wieder, Marcia

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

21.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Orwell, George

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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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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

28.

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

29.

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

Lao-Tzu

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To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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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

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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

Hamilton, Alexander

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Adams, John

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

Proverb, Arabian

40.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Seneca

42.

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Norse

45.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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