Motivational Quotes

Power

Power tires only those who do not have it.

- Andreotti, Giulio

Best Quotes about Power

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Steffens, Lincoln

Man was predestined to have free will.

Luyah, Hal

The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold

11.

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

Amy Tan

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

White, Theodore

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Harry Shearer

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You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Phillips, Wendell

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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.

Apocrypha

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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 will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Shakespeare, William

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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Pitt, William

25.

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

Aeschylus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

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A word after a word after a word is power.

Atwood, Margaret

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

John Lehman

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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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

Aeschylus

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Man has will, but woman has her way.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Vere, Sir Aubrey De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Jordan, William George

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

Mann, Horace

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Power tires only those who do not have it.

Andreotti, Giulio

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

Proverb, Arabian