Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Power

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Hugo, Victor

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.

Boehme, Jacob

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

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

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

Barthes, Roland

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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

Camus, Albert

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If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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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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

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The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

Kinkel

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Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.

Shakespeare, William

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

Billings, Josh

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Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Personal power is the ability to take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

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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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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Propertius, Sextus

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Our power is in our ability to decide.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

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

Archimedes

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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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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

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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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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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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

Lao-Tzu

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Friedman, Milton

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

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

Kohe, J. Martin