Motivational Quotes

Power

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

- John Lehman

Best Quotes about Power

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

Herrich

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

12.

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

Amy Tan

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Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Stewart L. Udall

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 point of power is always in the present moment.

Hay, Louise L.

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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

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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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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rand, Ayn

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

Rostand, Jean

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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Bacon, Francis

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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Vaneigem, Raoul

43.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.

Roper, Elmo

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Peter, Laurence J.

46.

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

Weil, Simone

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Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

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