Motivational Quotes

Power

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

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Power

The will of man is his happiness.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.

Kazantzakis, Nikos

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

Thatcher, Margaret

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

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

Malcolm X

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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Shakespeare, William

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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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Harry Shearer

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Kohe, J. Martin

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

Proverb, Norse

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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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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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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The one who wills is the one who can.

Proverb

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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In oratory the will must predominate.

Hare, David

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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca

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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fromm, Erich

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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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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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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Boseley, Sarah

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.