Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Power

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Seneca

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Malcolm X

The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Proverb, Norse

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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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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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Mizner, Addison

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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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

Amy Tan

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

Billings, Josh

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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Kahn, Herman

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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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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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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Capone, Al

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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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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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When the will is ready the feet are light.

Proverb

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Frost, Robert

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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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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Archimedes

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

Adams, John

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret