Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Power

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

Kohe, J. Martin

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Gaddis, William

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

Aeschylus

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Steffens, Lincoln

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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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Genet, Jean

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Rostand, Jean

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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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 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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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

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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

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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Proverb

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Will is character in action.

Mcdougall, William

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Mann, Horace

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

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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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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Aldrich, Withrop

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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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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 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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Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Accius

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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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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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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.